{"id":328238,"date":"2025-12-21T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T14:23:08","slug":"collyhurst-teacher-pestered-four-colleagues-with-sex-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328238\/","title":{"rendered":"Collyhurst teacher pestered four colleagues with sex messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then allegedly told her &#8220;the offer is there for you to mull over&#8221;, but then later apologised and said he was &#8220;so drunk&#8221;, the panel was told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Caron, who had been teaching for 10 years, claimed some messages were sent by mistake or when he was drunk or hungover, and said he &#8220;profoundly regretted&#8221; his actions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an email to the panel, he said: &#8220;If I could change these events, I would in a heartbeat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am sorry to those I have affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel heard his colleagues were shocked by his conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colleague A said Mr Caron was &#8220;such a nice guy&#8221; and the messages felt &#8220;out of character&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel ruled that &#8220;the repeated sending of sexually motivated messages&#8221;, including &#8220;explicit images&#8221; of himself, was serious misconduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He then allegedly told her &#8220;the offer is there for you to mull over&#8221;, but then later apologised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-328238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}