A teacher who had sex with a pupil in his car has been jailed for 18 months over their secret affair.
Married Harri Williams, 43, used his office for a string of dates where he would kiss and fondle the 16-year-old girl who was infatuated with him.
The father-of-two, a business studies teacher, also took her on trips to ten pin bowling alleys, the cinema and for romantic meals.
He also took her on the London Eye-style big wheel in Liverpool city centre before having sex with her in his car.
A court heard she had ‘taken her opportunity to kiss him’ when they were seated next to each other at a school prom in the Wirral in 2012.
She said she ‘felt excited’ about the affair and told him she loved him.
But the scandal emerged when the girl confided in her friends about her married lover and one of them told her mother who went to the school.
The girl later told police: ‘I now think that what he did was wrong but he did not force me to do anything I did not want to do or tell me to keep anything secret.’
Williams, who was suspended as head of his department at a secondary school where he has taught for 18 months initially denied an affair but later confessed.
In a statement he said: ‘There are no excuses. I crossed the line. In the cold light of day, I knew what I was doing. I was old enough to be her father. I will fall on my sword. I will be struck off.’
At Liverpool Crown Court, Williams pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of authority and one count of inciting sexual activity.