A science teacher who was in a sexual relationship with a pupil faces being banned from the profession. 

Robert Hanna, 43, was jailed for three years in 2021 for sexual activity with a child whilst in a position of trust. 

Next Wednesday (November 27) a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) misconduct hearing will consider his future in the profession. 

A court previously heard how Hanna was a teacher at a school in Southwark from 2015 until May 2019 when he was subsequently dismissed. 

During this time he began having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old pupil whom he helped to achieve good grades in physics. 

During a school prom he asked a group of pupils to meet up with him. 

Hanna then purchased alcohol and met with a few of the girls. 

A sexual relationship began with the victim, over a four-month period. 

The victim told Hanna that she wanted the relationship to end but he persuaded her to meet with him one more time, he then broke up with her. 

On Monday, April 1 2019 the victim found the courage to inform a teacher of what had been happening and the school immediately suspended him. 

Police were alerted and an investigation began, led by specialist officers from Central South Child Abuse Investigation Team. 

Officers interviewed him the following day and he denied being in a sexual relationship with the victim. 

A subsequent investigation found hotel check in and check out confirmation, banks statements and phone download evidence that corroborated the account given by the victim. 

Detective Constable Erica Slater, from Central South Command, said: “This was a complex case where Hanna denied everything from the beginning and lied continuously throughout the case. 

Hanna has been issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), preventing him from having any unsupervised contact with people under 18 and he will be subject to the Sex Offenders Register for life.