A married teacher had an affair with an ex- pupil and pressured her to ‘get him lots of drugs’.
Robin Kyne, now 54, was a married drama teacher and later assistant principal, at the then Regent College from 2004 to 2010. During this time he made contact with a pupil he later had a relationship with when she left the school.
When Kyne was working for Leicester City Council in 2019 a pupil came forward about the relationship that took place in 2007.
After she left college messages between them “very quickly became graphic and sexual in nature”, LeicestershireLive reported.
It became physical in September 2007 and a month later they had sex for the first time.
As well as that, Kyne ‘asked and/or pressured’ the pupil into buying and transporting drugs for him. He threatened to cancel on her or break up with her if she didn’t.
During his time at the college, when she was a student, the inappropriate behaviour began during drama lessons.
Kyne took pupils' phone numbers claiming he wanted to contact them about homework. But she said that whilst he did not text regularly, it was never about homework.
The contact increased when she left college and it was then it became sexually graphic in nature.
When it became physical, Kyne would have sex with the pupil when his wife was away.
Following the allegations, Kyne’s case was brought before a panel at the Teaching Regulation Agency who made the decision to ban him from teaching for life.
They received 467 pages of messages between Kyne and the pupil. In one of the messages, Kyne admitted: "You know I’ve always had a bit of a crush on you".
Other messages include the teacher admitting “there were times when I could have just pulled you behind the curtains in the Studio", but says he "never would have" as "that would have crossed the line”.
Mr Kyne then sent her further messages which were sexual in nature before it turned physical after he met up with her in September 2007.
However, the pupil said in her witness statement that the pair had kissed prior to the meeting - but the information on the document was redacted by the TRA. The panel then heard that, in or around October 2007, Mr Kyne had sex with the student.
The document reads: "When Pupil A came back to [REDACTED], she would visit his house when his wife was away. Pupil A recalled that they first had sexual intercourse in October 2007."
It was after this that Kyne began pressuring the pupil into buying and moving drugs for him.
This began as she started university and the panel found Kyne’s behaviour was a "serious departure from the personal and professional conduct elements of the Teachers’ Standards".
He was also found guilty of misconduct affecting the safeguarding and well-being of pupils.
They also said his actions were an abuse of trust of his professional position to have a romantic or sexual relationship with a pupil or former pupil, and sexual misconduct involving sexually motivated actions that exploit the trust and influence of his professional position.
The panel added that Mr Kyne's actions were "deliberate" as well as being "calculated and motivated".
As a result of his actions, the panel decided to ban Mr Kyne from teaching indefinitely, stopping him from teaching in any school, sixth form college, youth accommodations, or children's homes, and will be unable to reapply to teach in the future.
The Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College, which now runs the former Regent College, has been approached for comment.
