Shamed: Former teacher Eppie Sprung, 31, who was struck off after being caught half-naked in a parked car with a teenage pupil has reinvented herself as a business guru
A shamed teacher struck off after being caught half-naked in a parked car with a teenage pupil has reinvented herself as a business guru.
Eppie Sprung, who was spotted by police in a layby naked from the waist down with the 17-year-old Matthew Robinson, was found ‘unfit to teach’ by a disciplinary panel and barred from teaching for life.
But the 31-year-old has now reemerged with a new business venture where she secures funding for private firms and charities through her Here for Growth scheme.
Now a self-employed business consultant, her website claims Here for Growth will help companies: ‘Maintain a secure foundation whilst nurturing innovative approaches to growth, enabling them to flourish.’
The website goes on: ‘Here For Growth was set up by Eppie Sprung after 10 years of working in the public, private and third sectors.’
Fresh start: The 31-year-old has now reemerged with a new business venture where she secures funding for private firms and charities through her Here for Growth scheme
And that she runs a ‘dynamic, impact-focused consultancy offering a bespoke and professional service, supporting organisations to grow and develop’.
While her CV lists ‘coaching and mentoring’ as being among her skills and points out she is a ‘driven and enthusiastic individual with a commitment to excellence’.
Shamed Sprung was just four years into her career as an English teacher when she seduced dyslexic Robinson after offering extra help with his lessons.
Sprung, who was spotted by police in a layby naked from the waist down with Matthew Robinson (left), 17, and barred from teaching indefinitely. The encounter also cost Sprung her two-year marriage to lecturer husband Ranald (right)
The encounter cost Sprung her job and her two-year marriage to lecturer husband Ranald – the 32-year-old son of former Solicitor General Lord Dawson.
She then invited Mr Robinson to live in her marital home in the Scottish market town of Dumfries where she lavished him with gifts of computer games and rugby shirts.
But their relationship did not last and Mr Robinson moved out of the home in 2015 and is understood to have started a new relationship.
Sprung’s Here for Growth website lists her involvement with several small businesses and community groups – including DGVoice – a voluntary group for disable people in Dumfries and Galloway which runs events for youths – as well as doing the bookkeeping for a youth charity
Meanwhile Sprung reinvented herself as a business guru with a supposed decade of experience working in different sectors.
She escaped a jail term after admitting to the offence in court and was slapped with a six-month community payback order which required her to attend a compulsory psychosexual counselling course.
But despite her past, her website lists her involvement with several small businesses and community groups – including DGVoice – a voluntary group for disable people in Dumfries and Galloway which runs events for youths.
Shamed Sprung was just four years into her career as an English teacher at St. Joseph’s College in Dumfries, Scotland when she seduced dyslexic Robinson after offering extra help with his lessons
Sprung also does the bookkeeping for charity Youth Alive, which aims to help young people aged 12 and upwards.
Posting a Facebook message on Valentine’s Day, Sprung said she was loving life and had enjoyed an incredible six months with various individuals and firms.
She wrote: ‘This year for Valentine’s Day I’m going to opt for loving life instead!
‘I’ve had the most incredible six months with support from wonderful organisations and individuals.
‘Every single day I’m surrounded by people who are literally changing the world – improving their community (of geography, interest or identity)… increasing peoples’s life chances… removing the barriers that are currently stopping people from living the life they deserve. I couldn’t be luckier!’