Teacher, 22, Gets Classroom Life Ban For Marrying 13-Year-Old Girl

A physics teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after marrying a 13-year-old girl when he was 22 and sleeping with her.

Joshim Nur, now 34, is said to have flown to Bangladesh in 2006 for the arranged marriage during his summer holidays after watching a video of her made by her father.

The victim, named only as Child A, said she had sex with her husband shortly after their wedding night and after settling in the UK she was taken to a family planning clinic and put on the contraceptive pill.

Nur was a teacher at the London Nautical School in Blackfriars at the time and has now been struck off.

A Teaching Regulation Authority panel sitting in Coventry last month said his claims that he believed she was 18 were ‘not credible’ especially as his wife said she told him she was 13 and was studying in Year 8 at school.

Nur had accused the girl’s parents of ‘deception’ and said he was unaware of her real age until she made a complaint to the police in 2013 and a bone test confirmed she was underage when they married.

It is not clear how long the couple stayed together or if they have any children.

The panel said: ‘Mr Nur now accepts that Child A was 13 years old in 2006. However, he maintains that he was unaware of this at the time of their marriage, believing her to be 18 years old.

‘Mr Nur does not deny that he had sexual intercourse with Child A during their marriage. This is supported by the evidence of the Family Court Order which identified that “full sexual relations between the mother and father commenced in early part of 2007 when she was only 13 or 14 years of age”.’

The panel heard he thought she was 18 despite being familiar with the appearance of girls that age as the result of working at the school.

The panel saw a written statement from the child who said she had a direct conversation with Nur three days before their arranged marriage in Bangladesh.

In the statement she told him she was 13 and studying in Year 8 at school.

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