'Hero' teacher who tackled knife stalker struck off after videoing child’s bum
dailyrecord.co.ukA teacher who once played a hero’s role in tackling a stalker who tried to kill one of his pupils has been struck off for recording footage of a child’s bottom.
David Stus, was reported to the police after a video was brought to light of a child’s bum which was taken on his mobile as she was “bending over to pick up an item”, a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel heard.
The former teacher was investigated by cops, however officers opted to take no further action against the 41-year-old. It comes after Stus was named as one of the heroes who brought down a knifeman after a pupil was attacked at the school gates in 2011.
Stalker Samuel Gayzer-Tomlinson was handed a 13-year jail sentence after trying to kill his schoolgirl ex-girlfriend Chloe West in a frenzied knife attack.A pupil named Stus as one of the heroes who brought the knifeman down and “jumped on him”.Now he has been banned indefinitely from the classroom after the school referred him to the Teaching Regulation Agency once they were told about the footage, which was recorded in Ridgewood High School in Stourbridge, around November 2018.Stus was alleged to have taken a video of Child A while she was bending over which “focused on her bottom”, was recorded without her consent, edited the video “which repeatedly showed the same image of Child A’s bottom” and his conduct was alleged to have been of a “sexual nature or sexually motivated”, a professional conduct panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency heard on December 16.Stus accepted that he was responsible for filming the initial footage which included Child A, but said it was taken accidentally and he “did not focus on her bottom”.
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