A teacher accused of sleeping with an 18-year-old pupil after a boozy prom night was pictured sitting on a hotel room bed drinking wine.
Melissa Tweedie was this week struck off the teaching register after her conduct in June 2017 was found to fall ‘significantly short of standards’, making her ‘unfit to teach’.
Although there was not enough evidence to conclude Miss Tweedie had indeed slept with her pupil, the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) found she had kissed the boy.
Miss Tweedie, 22 at the time, denies sleeping with the pupil, insisting she followed some sixth formers to a Premier Inn hotel after prom because she thought they might be doing drugs.
She implied she may have been spiked, claiming a female pupil handed her a glass of wine before she blacked out and woke up in a bed next to the boy she allegedly slept with.
Now, new footage revealed by the Daily Record shows Miss Tweedie, from Gleniffer High School in Paisley, Scotland, sitting next to a female pupil with a glass of wine.
A source said: ‘This picture was taken after the prom as Melissa was hanging out with some of the sixth form girls with a glass of wine in the hotel. Of course, we all know what happened next.
‘This picture in the hotel has been circulating among the pupils – even though pupils were warned to delete any pictures on their phones of Miss Tweedie in the hotel.’
In other snaps from the video, Miss Tweedie can be seen dancing and drinking with pupils at the prom itself.
The GTCS also heard other teachers thought the way Miss Tweedie was dancing and drinking with pupils was ‘inappropriate’.
On top of kissing the boy, Miss Tweedie was also proven to have said: ‘Can we for a minute act like I’m not a teacher?’
The 18-year-old Miss Tweedie allegedly slept with said told the hearing: ‘We kissed, no one initiated it. We went downstairs and had sex in my room.
‘I feel really sorry for Miss Tweedie, I had already handed in my leavers form. In my eyes, it wasn’t a student event.’
Police Scotland found that nothing illegal had happebend. Miss Tweedie is now a yoga instructor in Dubai.
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