Mark Westcott, Bath, England (arrested Nov 2011) [sex with pupil]

TMP · Nov 28, 2011

Name: Mark Westcott, Bath, England

Age: 48

School: Kingswood School , Lansdown, Bath BA1 5RG

Position: Design & technology teacher, also responsible for "pastoral care"

Victim: Girl, > 16

This Is Bath (3 Nov 2011): Teacher charged with sex offences

This Is Bath said:

Mark Westcott, 48, is due to appear in court later this month charged with three sexual activity offences of adult abuse of a position of trust. The offences are alleged to have taken place earlier this year and are said to involve a female pupil aged over 16.
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Grantham Journal (7 Nov 2011): Teacher charged with pupil sex

[Mark Westcott] is due to appear before a court later this month charged with three sexual activity offences of abuse of a position of trust, Avon and Somerset Police said. Westcott, whose school cannot be named for legal reasons, has been released on bail.
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Glasgow Westend Extra (7 Nov 2011): Teacher charged with pupil sex

This Is Bath (24 Nov 2011): Teacher sacked after sex case admissions

This Is Bath said:

Magistrates heard that [Mark] Westcott, who has worked at the school for 20 years, had struck up a relationship with the girl after exchanging mobile phone numbers while she was having difficulties last year. They started texting each other and eventually began having a sexual relationship.
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From this I would surmise that the school involved is Kingswood School in Bath:

Mark Westcott, who was a close friend of Mr Allison's and a colleague in the school's [Kingswood School] design and technology department, said ...
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Got Google? You don't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to figure this stuff out.

From Google Cache (13 Nov 2011):

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
Mr B Brown (Head of Department)
Mrs D Westcott
Mr M Westcott

TMP · Dec 21, 2011

BBC (20 Dec 2011): Wiltshire teacher Mark Westcott jailed for pupil sex

BBC said:

Mark Westcott, 48, began the relationship with the girl when she was 16, Swindon Crown Court heard ... The relationship started when the girl, who was taking her GCSEs at a school in the Bath area, went to the married teacher for pastoral support.
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UK Press Association (20 Dec 2011): Teacher jailed over sex with pupil

UK Press Association said:

Married Mark Westcott, 48, began the affair with the girl when she was just 16 and had gone to see him for pastoral support. The design and technology teacher had given her his mobile phone number after one of his classes.
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This Is Bath (20 Dec 2011): Married teacher jailed for affair with girl pupil

This Is Bath said:

A married housemaster at a Bath boarding school who had an ‘extensive sexual relationship’ with a 16-year-old pupil has been jailed for 16 months. Mark Westcott, 48, and the girl regularly had furtive after-hours encounters in the design and technology department and even spent the night together in a hotel.
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Huffington Post (20 Dec 2011): Teacher Mark Westcott Jailed For Sex With Student

Huffington Post said:

The affair was first reported to police after the NSPCC received an anonymous call and later a pupil told another teacher that the girl was seeing someone. Initially the teenager refused to co-operate but soon gave detectives a statement detailing their relationship.
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Digital Journal (20 Dec 2011): Teacher, 48, jailed for 16 months following affair with student

Digital Journal said:

A 48-year-old teacher has been jailed for 16 months after having sex with one of his students in a classroom. Mark Westcott, originally from North Wraxall, Wiltshire, taught design and technology at a school in Bath. After one of Westcott’s students approached him for pastoral support, he gave her his mobile phone number and began to send flirtatious messages, despite being married. Their relationship soon turned intimate, as the couple began to have consensual sex.
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TMP · Dec 21, 2011

UK Mirror (21 Dec 2011): Teacher jailed for having sex with girl in class

UK Mirror said:

A TEACHER aged 48 was jailed for 16 months yesterday after he admitted having sex with one of his girl pupils at school. Married Mark Westcott began a relationship with the now 17-year-old on a school ski trip when she was just 16, Swindon crown court heard. He later bought her an engagement ring and began calling her “Mrs Westcott”.
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UK Express (21 Dec 2011): DISGRACED TEACHER JAILED FOR CLASSROOM SEX ROMPS WITH A 16-YEAR-OLD PUPIL

UK Express said:

But the relationship turned physical during a skiing trip in the early months of this year, the court had heard. The pair then began to exchange explicit text messages and swap naked pictures of themselves while Westcott was on holiday in France ... Westcott and his pupil had first met for sex when he booked a room for them at a Travelodge hotel on August 25 this year.
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UK Daily Mail (21 Dec 2011): Jail for the public school housemaster who seduced 16-year-old pupil on skiing trip

UK Daily Mail said:

Pair first slept together in a Travelodge hotel and also had sex in room next to school sports hall

Pupil babysat for lover's children and even became a friend of his wife

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