Joshnim Nur has been banned from the classroom for life after flying to Bangladesh to marry a 13-year-old girl. He claimed that he thought the girl was 18 years of age and he was deceived by her parents in the arranged marriage. He worked as a Physics Teacher at the highly respected London Nautical School.
He first met the girl, only identified as Child A, three days before they got married in August 2006 in Bangladesh where he flew for the marriage. Child A said they had sex after their wedding night and after coming to the UK she was put on the contraceptive pill and taken to family planning clinic.
A Teaching Regulation Authority panel last month said Nur’s claims that he believed Child A to be 18 were “not credible”. The girl said she told him she was 13 and studying in Year 8 at school.
She also confirmed the same details when Nur’s father recorded a video of her, which she believed Nur had seen. Child A went to the police in 2013 and underwent a clavicle bone test to confirm she was underage when they got married.
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The panel concluded:
“Mr Nur now accepts that Child A was 13 years old in 2006. Mr Nur does not deny that he had sexual intercourse with Child A during their marriage.”
The panel ruled he should have known she was aged under 16 because he taught at school where there were teenage girls and should have been familiar with appearance of that age.
The panel chairman Dr Robert Cawley said:
The panel did not find it plausible that Mr Nur could have mistaken a 13 year old child for an 18-year-old, and that this misconception continued over a four year period.
The panel was particularly concerned in light of the fact that he worked in a secondary school and had daily interactions with children of this age.”
The hearing heard how Nur was a “gifted and valued member of staff” by the school’s headteacher. He has now been banned from teaching for life.
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