Abuse teacher spared prison term

The former teacher admitted being a "bit over familiar at times"

A teacher who asked a teenage pupil to have sex with him has been spared a jail sentence.

Kenneth Anbany, 62, now of Hazel Grove near Stockport, groomed the 15-year-old girl for months at a Devon school.

Anbany admitted two charges of sexual activity and one count of causing or inciting the victim to have sex.

He was given a three-year community service order, banned from working with children for life and placed on the sex offenders register for five years.

Bought alcohol

The judge at Exeter Crown Court ordered eight charges relating to three other girls to be left on file.

Divorced father-of-three Anbany - who is no longer a teacher - had worked in the Exeter school, that cannot be identified for legal reasons, since May 2002.

The court heard the sexual allegations came to light when Anbany provided alcohol for a group of school pupils on a sports trip last year.

A complaint was made and Anbany was immediately suspended.

During police video interviews, allegations about hugging, kissing, and fondling were also made by teenage pupils.

It emerged that in April 2008 Anbany had taken the 15-year-old girl out of her class for a drive to an isolated car park in Haldon Woods, near Exeter, where he started kissing her.

She pushed him away but, shortly after, he asked her if he could "make love to you" in the back of his car.

As he dropped her off at home Anbany said no-one would believe her if they got into trouble.

She told her brother that her teacher had "snogged her" and she had pushed him away.

After he was arrested Anbany told police he liked "a laugh and a joke" and admitted being a "bit over familiar at times".