LONDON SCIENCE TEACHER BANNED FOR SHARING CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A former teacher at a Bromley school has been struck off the teaching register after being convicted of making and distributing indecent images of children.Science teacher Kieran Atter admitted to accessing indecent images of children—a number of them in the most serious category—using Twitter, saving images on his phone and sharing them with others while employed as a teacher at the Hayes School, a secondary school in Hayes, South East London.
The 35-year-old worked at Hayes School between August 30, 2022 and February 9, 2023, leaving his job 14 days before he was convicted of five sexual offences, having been arrested on January 5, 2023.
In May 2024, Atter was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court for three counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of children, and two counts of distributing such images.
He received a 10-month suspended sentence, along with a rehabilitation activity requirement, an unpaid work requirement, a restraining order, a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and a 10-year registration on the Sexual Offenders Register.
He also admitted that he was convicted of these offences at a teacher misconduct panel on August 20, held by the Teaching Regulation Agency.
The panel found that Atter's conduct "fell significantly short of the standards expected" of teachers, and was "particularly serious" given the conviction for making and distributing indecent images of children.
As a result, he was prohibited from teaching indefinitely in any school, sixth form college, youth accommodation or children's home in England.
Currently, he works as a rail replacement coordinator.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he has a PhD in Chemistry from Durham University and an MSci in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham.
