Man Banned From Teaching After He Married 13-Year-Old Girl He Met Three Days Earlier

A teacher has been banned from the classroom for life for marrying a 13-year-old girl he met three days beforehand during his school’s summer break.

Joshim Nur was 22 when he started teaching at the London Nautical School in June 2006, a teaching disciplinary panel heard.

He claimed he thought the girl was 18 but the panel saw a written statement from the girl who said she had written to the teacher before their arranged marriage and told him her age.

The panel, sitting in Coventry, ruled that the now 34-year-old teacher had a relationship with the girl from August 2006 to April 2009 in circumstances when he should have known she was under the age of 16.

He married her in Bangladesh during the summer break immediately after getting his job at the school in London and had a -exual relationship with the child.

Three days before the wedding, the girl had written to Nur to tell him she was 13 and in year 8 at school, the panel heard.

The girl said earlier she had been the subject of a video recording taken by Nur’s father in which she confirmed the same details – and that she believed Nur had seen the video.

The panel said she was consistent in her account in her initial complaint, police interview and the TRA proceedings – and they found her evidence to be compelling and credible. Nur said in written evidence that he was ‘deceived’ by her family as to his wife’s age when they wed.