RE teacher, 33, who had sex with pupil, 15, in her car and a flat after drinking booze on a night out is banned from the classroom

A teacher who dodged jail after having sex with a 15-year-old pupil in her car has been struck off.

Siobhan McLean, 34, met the boy in her role as head of pupil support at a secondary school in Lanarkshire.

She had been helping his relative apply for university courses as well as taking study classes which the boy attended.

But after the boy’s family member left school, McLean contacted him on social media and they began exchanging messages – before the mother-of-one arranged to meet him at a university union. 

They went on a night out with another person, drinking alcohol, before retreating to a flat where she began kissing the teen and went on to have sex with him.

Pupil support teacher Siobhan McLean appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court (pictured)

Days later she arranged to see him again before they had sex in the back of her BMW in a secluded car park at Craignethan Castle near Blackwood, Lanarkshire.

The boy’s mother later became alarmed after hearing him saying ‘I love you’ during a phone call.

He had claimed he was talking to a friend – but his phone was confiscated and revealed McLean’s intimate messages, prompting a call to the police.

McLean, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, appeared last October at Hamilton Sheriff Court, where she admitted engaging in sexual activity with the pupil. 

She was ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work and put under supervision for three years.

McLean’s registration to teach has now been removed by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). It means she has been banned from the classroom.

McLean had been dismissed from her teaching role by South Lanarkshire Council after her inappropriate relationship with the boy came to light.

The former religious education teacher was tagged for 12 months and banned from having unsupervised contact with children other than her own.

The mother of one is on the sex offenders’ register for ten years and is also banned from contacting the victim or any of his family members for five years.

A hearing in January was told social workers overseeing McLean’s case gave a positive report and said no court dates would be needed unless she breaches any aspect of the order.

The GTCS states: ‘A teacher who has been removed from the register will only be granted registration again where they demonstrate to a fitness-to-teach panel that they are now fit to teach.’