These are the first pictures of a shamed PE teacher appearing to drink alcohol with teenagers in a hotel room on the night she is alleged to have had sex with a pupil.
In the images, exclusive to the Daily Record, then 22-year-old Melissa Tweedie appears to be perched on the edge of the bed in a hotel room.
Wearing a red party dress and clutching a glass of wine, the former teacher at Paisley’s Gleniffer High School appears to be in conversation with school pupils following their prom.
Later that night in June 2017, she is alleged to have joined a teenage lad in bed after asking him: “Can we for a minute act like I’m not a teacher?”
Other images, taken at the school’s leaving do in Glasgow’s SWG3 in June 2017, show Tweedie on the dancefloor among other pupils.
Another shows her on the stage at the venue holding a glass of wine as a group of male pupils dance alongside her.
Pupils were allegedly told to erase any evidence they may have had of the disgraced teacher.
Last night a source at the school told the Record: "This picture was taken after the prom as Melissa was hanging out with some of the sixth form girls with a glass of wine in the hotel.
"Of course, we all know what happened next.
“There were no drugs and nobody knows anything about her drink being spiked, as Miss Tweedie claimed to her bosses.
"The next day it was a bit crazy as rumours started to spread about what had happened.
“This picture in the hotel has been circulating among the pupils - even though pupils were warned to delete any pictures on their phones of Miss Tweedie in the hotel."
Tweedie was struck off the teaching register earlier this week after the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) ruled that her behaviour had fallen “significantly short of the standards” expected of education workers.
The regulator heard Tweedie had been seen by fellow staff members dancing inappropriately with pupils and taking shots with them at the venue’s bar.
She later went back to the Premier Inn - but claimed she only did so because of concerns pupils were taking drugs.
Tweedie also told investigators that she woke up in bed beside the pupil the next day, but denied she had slept with him and claimed she may have been spiked.
The allegation that she slept with the 18-year-old, named as Pupil A, was found not proven by the panel - despite the teen claiming that he had slept with her after knocking back wine, gin, shots and beer.
But Tweedie, who now works in Dubai as a yoga instructor, was found to have kissed the teenager
Gary Burton, presenting officer on the panel, said: “There has been no evidence of remediation and given the lack of insight, remorse or evidence of remediation I submit that the risk of repetition is significant if she was permitted to return to the profession.”
The pupil at the centre of the case told the hearing he felt “sorry” for the teacher.
He said: “We kissed, no one initiated it. We went downstairs and had sex in my room.
“I feel really sorry for Miss Tweedie, I had already handed in my leavers form. In my eyes, it wasn’t a student event.”
Police Scotland found no criminality had taken place.
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