An Education Workforce Council has struck off Jonathan Mark Norbury after a hearing earlier this month
A former primary school teacher has been banned from teaching for at least 10 years for conducting sexual relationships with two girls.
A teaching tribunal found that Jonathan Mark Norbury had committed 17 of 21 allegations against him relating to girls under the age of 16 and between the ages of 16 and 18.
The Swansea-based former teacher was also found to have had inappropriately touched a third girl while she was under the age of 18.
An Education Workforce Council’s (EWC) fitness to practice committee in Cardiff found that in 2005 Mr Norbury had engaged in sexual touching with a 15-year-old known as Girl A.
The incidents happened in his car. Mr Norbury would park his Volkswagen Passat somewhere isolated and then touch her intimately.
The panel believed Girl A when she said this happened at least once a week before she turned 16.
It also found that Girl A had an 18-month long sexual relationship with Mr Norbury after she turned 16.
It began when they had sex on the floor of the back room at Mr Norbury’s parents house, soon after her 16th birthday.
Girl A said she was a virgin when the incident happened.
She said: “When I turned 16 we had sex for the first time – it was at his parents’ house.
“As soon as I turned 16 he took everything because he could.”
Between 2007 and 2008 the panel found that Mr Norbury had sent inappropriate text messages, kissed and inappropriately touched a second girl - Girl B.
They found that when Girl B was 15-years-old Mr Norbury had sent her a text message that read “you looked hot” after his brother’s wedding.
Soon after - while she was still 15 - Mr Norbury took Girl B into a cupboard in his classroom at Pontarddulais Primary School where he was teaching at the time.
There he told her to show him her underwear before kissing her.
In a third incident while she was still 15, Norbury and Girl B sexually touched one another in an alleyway between the Farmers Arms pub and a takeaway in Swansea.
Mr Norbury also touched a third girl - Girl C - at his 25th birthday party, just a few days after she had turned 16 in 2006.
They also heard how, when she was under the age of 18, Mr Norbury took Girl C to a park near her home, took off her top and bra, gave her Malibu to drink and encouraged her to perform a sex act on him.
The panel found that Mr Norbury did not have any sexual contact with Girl C while she was under 16 and that they did not have sex until after her 18th birthday.
The committee found that Mr Norbury had pursued the teenage girls for “his own sexual gratification” and that his conduct “fell short of the conduct expected of a teacher”.
The committee said the girls “had varying levels of vulnerability and his actions had the potential to have a detrimental effect on them.”
Giving the EWC’s decision, committee chairman Steve Powell said that while Mr Norbury had shown “no failing in his abilities as a teacher”, he had misled the council in its inquiries.
He said Mr Norbury had “failed to show insight into his conduct and take heed of warnings” offered by other teaching staff.
Mr Powell said the former teacher had told a number of lies “for which there was no credible explanation”.
He can appeal the decision to the High Court and will be eligible to reapply for registration in ten years time.
Mr Norbury was working as a teacher and acting deputy head at Casllwchwr Primary School in Swansea when the allegations emerged in 2013.
He was found not guilty of 14 historic child sex offences at Swansea Crown Court in January last year.
Despite being sacked by Swansea Council after the criminal proceedings, Mr Norbury revived an £8,000 golden goodbye from the authority and a reference as part of a settlement.
The reference, provided by the council in February of last year, described him as a “valued and conscientious” teacher who had “always put the needs of the pupils first”.
A council spokesman said: “We welcome the decision of the panel. Their decision demonstrates we took appropriate action in dismissing Mr Norbury and referring him to the EWC.
“However we are concerned about the processes which led to Mr Norbury receiving his reference, and have therefore commissioned an independent review.”
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