Teacher had sex with private lessons girl from Shropshire school

Roger Brown agreed to help the pupil, 'Girl B', with her A-level coursework after meeting her while she was a pupil at Church Stretton School.

The 41-year-old later made flirtatious comments to another sixth-form student, known as 'Pupil A' – in person and in text messages – when he moved on to Stourport High School, Worcestershire.

A professional conduct panel found Brown guilty of serious sexual misconduct and ruled he should be banned indefinitely from teaching.

Girl B alleges Brown invited her to his home after she contacted him over e-mail for help with her music coursework.

She said when she arrived, Brown gave her wine and they had sex. The pair went on to have sex several times "at different locations" over the following months.

Brown denied sexual intercourse ever took place, but the National College for Teaching and Leadership conduct panel said Facebook messages between them was evidence it did.

In June 2008, two years after the sexual relationship ended, there were a series of messages about a concert in which Brown had invited Girl B to perform.

Panel chair Mike Carter said in a written ruling: "The panel is satisfied these Facebook exchanges, read together with the evidence of Girl B, prove on the balance of probabilities, that sexual intercourse took place on more than one occasion.

"The panel finds that the purpose of these Facebook exchanges, initiated by Mr Brown, was to resume the sexual relationship that had existed some two years earlier.

"The panel is further satisfied this was an inappropriate relationship with Girl B. The sexual relationship arose as a result of a teacher/pupil relationship. He abused that position of trust by engaging in a sexual relationship with her."