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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Joe Middleton

Teacher who lied that she had cancer and surgeons removed her eye banned from classroom

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A teacher who lied about having cancer and falsely claimed that surgeons had removed her eye has been banned from the classroom indefinitely.

Julianne Cox, who worked at St Helena School, in Colchester, Essex, between 2014 and 2017, told colleagues her right retina had been surgically removed and that she was undergoing chemotherapy.

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