{"id":752423,"date":"2026-08-28T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752423\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:28:16","slug":"warwickshire-hidden-camera-teacher-banned-from-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752423\/","title":{"rendered":"Warwickshire hidden camera teacher banned from profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A teacher who gave a pupil a pen with a hidden camera and encouraged her to change clothes before using it has been banned indefinitely from the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel found the actions of Matthew Udall, 33,  &#8220;were sexually motivated and had the potential to cause serious harm to the pupil&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former science teacher, who was teaching at a Warwickshire school, had encouraged the student to change her clothes before writing in a journal at home with the pen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was arrested in July 2022 and convicted two years later after pleading guilty to inciting or causing a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to observe a person doing a private act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The panel noted there was &#8220;no indication Mr Udall had succeeded in his attempt, but his intentions were clear from the conviction he received&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/teacher-misconduct-panel-outcome-mr-matthew-udall\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the TRA decision, external<\/a>, the pupil spotted the camera lens on the pen and confided in a friend and another teacher, who informed the head teacher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was eventually sentenced to 31 months in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher who gave a pupil a pen with a hidden camera and encouraged her to change clothes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752423","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\/752423","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=752423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}