Sex offence teacher "no risk"
There's controversy surrounding a disgraced Religious Education teacher who's been ruled fit to return to the classroom despite being sacked for possessing scores of indecent images of children.
Child abuse images teacher: " I had no intention of returning to teaching"
A teacher who was dismissed after indecent images were found on his computer has today insisted he "never had any intention of returning to teaching".
RE teacher Geoffrey Bettley was dismissed from St Mary's Catholic School in Menston, in December 2011 after seizure of his computer in December 2010 found 143 level one images.
His story hit the headlines this week after it was revealed a disciplinary panel had deemed he did not pose a risk to children and should be able to resume his teaching career.
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