Christian Teacher and Pastor’s Wife, Who Was Banned from Teaching for Having Prom Night Sex With a Student, Seems to Have Been Forgiven by Husband

Isabelle Graham, 27, the teacher who was struck off this week for spending the night with a 17-year-old pupil, put on a united front with her husband Andrew outside their Aldershot home.

Holding hands in a show of unity, the teacher struck off for having sex with a pupil emerges with her husband from their flat.

Isabelle Graham, 27, was banned from her profession this week after a disciplinary panel heard that she spent the night in a budget hotel with a 17-year-old boy.

The former French teacher and her trainee clergyman husband Andrew Wilkie, also 27, were dressed casually as they left their home in Aldershot.

Miss Graham – who now uses the name Shona Wilkie – wore jeans and a cardigan while her husband wore a T-shirt and shorts that revealed an elaborate tattoo on his lower right leg.

The couple, who married last year, had their first child last week,

Miss Graham, a devout Christian, was judged unfit to teach by a panel that heard allegations that in June 2014 she spent three hours in bed with the schoolboy at a Travelodge in Edinburgh, drinking alcohol and repeatedly engaging in sexual activity.

The former teacher claimed her drink had been spiked and that she had no recollection of the night.

But police said CCTV footage showed her kissing the teenager and a photo shared online appeared to show her lying in his hotel bed while he stood in the doorway holding a bottle of champagne.

Miss Graham resigned from her post at Whitburn Academy, West Lothian, after the allegations surfaced and has relocated to Aldershot, where she was seen on Wednesday with her husband.

They spent the day with Miss Graham’s father Peter, a pastor in Edinburgh, and her stepmother Amanda.

Mr Wilkie gave a statement to the tribunal defending his wife and saying he ‘never had any doubt’ that the allegations were false.

She had ‘always put her Christian faith above all other things’, he said. Miss Graham chose not to attend the hearing, or give evidence via video link.

But in a statement she said she was the ‘victim’ and that if the photograph was of her, it had been posed and was of someone who was ‘not in control of the situation’. She said she was an ‘active and practising Christian’ who was waiting until marriage before having sex.

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SOURCE: DailyMail
Claire Duffin