A teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after admitting he had sex with a pupil the day after her final exam.

Tom Field taught at Ursuline College in Westgate-on-Sea for almost 20 years but has now been struck off after he took a group of pupils to the pub.

The 46-year-old drove some of them there and then dropped them back afterwards – deliberately leaving the teenager he wanted until last.

In his own words, he admitted: “Well before [she] got out of the car, I told [her] that I’d like to have sex with [her].”

The very next day on June 21, 2023, Field drove the teenager to his home under the pretence of getting changed after school.

Once inside, he took her upstairs and had sex with her, a Teacher Regulation Agency panel heard last month.

The pupil later told investiga

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