Former Shipston teacher jailed for sex offences

A disgraced teacher has been jailed for having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old pupil at Shipston High School where he taught.

Jonathan Hunt (pictured) had pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two charges of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.

Hunt, who was the school's head of science at the time, also admitted meeting her following grooming, intending to do something which would be an offence under the Sexual Offences Act.

In addition the disgraced teacher pleaded guilty to three further charges of causing the 15-year-old girl to watch a sexual act, while he was in a position of trust, for the purpose of him obtaining sexual gratification.

Hunt (52) now of Somerset Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire, was jailed for a total of three years and four months and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

Judge Richard Griffith Jones also imposed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order with conditions including a prohibition on Hunt teaching or tutoring any girl under the age of 16 or seeking paid or voluntary work which would entail contact with a child.

He told Hunt: “From standing tall as a man of respect, you have fallen into disgrace.”

For more on this story read this Thursday's Stratford Herald.