A teacher at a grammar school in South Manchester who had sex with a former pupil after he booked them a hotel room has been banned from the teaching register. Robert MacCallum, 39, met the pupil at William Hulme Grammar School in Whalley Range where he was a PE teacher and head of Year 12 at the time.
A professional conduct panel heard that Mr MacCallum and the former student, referred to as 'Pupil A' formed a very ''close relationship'' between them while they were both at the school. There was no indication to the panel that any criminal offence was committed as the pupil was of a legal consensual age, the Manchester Evening News reports.
Around a year after they had decided to leave the school, the pupil informed the panel that the pair had continued speaking over text. Pupil A also told the hearing that they'd been out with Mr MacCallum 'a handful of times' to multiple bars and that the two of them would stay out late until the venues shut.
