A primary school teacher has been struck off after he admitted grooming and indecently assaulting a 14-year-old school girl.
Mark Robert Ashby pleaded guilty to the offences which involved sending the girl thousands of texts and sexually explicit Snapchat videos in September last year and was sentenced to 10 months home detention.
The 27-year-old Canterbury man came before the Teacher's Disciplinary Tribunal in March this year as a result of the conviction. In the decision released today, it ruled that Ashby's registration should be censured.
Ashby had already made an undertaking last April not to teach and did not object to being struck off.
In the findings, tribunal chairman Kenneth Johnston said censorship and cancelling his registration appeared to be the "proper and inevitable outcome".