Teacher who slept with students jailed

Teacher who slept with students jailed

A teacher in the UK who dubbed himself the 'Salford Stallion' as he slept with three of his high school students has been jailed for six years.

Christopher Drake, 29, committed a "classic breach of trust" in having sex with the girls he taught at a school in Atherton, Greater Manchester.

Judge Timothy Mort told Drake on Tuesday that he received his "comeuppance in spectacular fashion" when two of the girls discovered he was two-timing them, which led to his arrest.

He had been having sex with both his students since they were aged 14 and had also slept with a 16-year-old girl he taught at Hesketh Fletcher Church of England High School.

One of the three girls that Drake slept with was from the Hesketh Fletcher Church of England High SchoolThe girl who went to the flat threatened to call the police and ran outside to alert neighbours as Drake told her to "shut up, shut up" and attempted to grab her and calm her down, he said.

When police arrived, they discovered the property had been specially staged for a romantic evening, with rose petals on the floor and balloons adorning the property.

Other items inside were a set of furry handcuffs, bondage ropes with a sign reading "tied up at the moment", an eye mask with the label "naughty but nice", Viagra tablets and vibrators.

Drake's mobile phone was seized during his arrest and it contained recordings of both girls having sex with the defendant.

The 16-year-old girl who slept with Drake near the end of the school term - previous to the other two relationships - said students at the school were aware of Drake's self-styled nickname "Salford Stallion" and he had texted her in that name before they had sex.

The defendant admitted at an earlier hearing to numerous counts of sexual activity with a child, sexual activity with a ch! ild by a person in a position of trust, and making and possessing indecent photographs of a child.

He was sentenced to three years each in jail for the sexual offences involving the two girls who he started seeing from the age of 14. He received concurrent terms for the remaining offences.
Source: thisislondon.co.uk

Published Apr 5 2011