North East BNP organizer abuses position of trust and is banned from teaching.
The BNP again showed them selves up as hypocrites again this month as their north east organizer Mark Walker, was dismissed from Sunnydale Comprehensive after being found guilty of an inappropriate e-mail relationship with a 16-year old girl.
The General Teaching Council Committee has ruled that Walker was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct whilst he was employed as a teacher at Sunnydale Community College, County Durham in 2007. During this time he conducted an inappropriate e-mail exchange with a 16 year old former pupil of the school and he used school computers for his own private and business use. It also found that he misused school computers at times when he was supposed to be working.
Whilst on suspension Walker also acted inappropriately by contacting colleagues regarding matters relating to the suspension and publicising facts about his suspension and the investigation. He was also found to have been involved with groups having disruptive demonstrations outside the school to protest the so called “injustice”. A judge had previously found walkers behaviour during that time to be “scandalous”.
The Committee found Walker guilty of all these acts of misconduct. Walkers offences had been so serious that the options to impose lesser sanctions as punishment were disregarded. Walker was given a Prohibition Order and banned indefinitely from teaching from 31st October 2011.
Mr Walker’s abuse of a position of trust with a vulnerable individual is extremely serious and highly incompatible with continuing to be a registered teacher. The GTC consider this to be a proportionate sanction, which is necessary in order to maintain public confidence in the teaching profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of conduct.
This means that Walker is struck off the Teaching Register indefinitely and cannot teach in maintained schools or non-maintained special schools. He may apply for permission to re-register, but not until 2 years from the date of this order at the earliest. If he does apply, a panel will meet to consider whether his eligibility to register, and teach, should be restored.
So there we have it. Mark Walker, a leading member of the BNP in the North-east and national figure having worked for MEP Andrew Brons is deemed a threat to vulnerable individuals and not fit to be a teacher. This is someone who claims to be an upstanding member of the community and working for a party which claims stand for law and order.
The BNP also regularly claim to be the party to hand out harsh justice to paedophiles. Not quite compatible views from someone who has been banned for teaching party because of his inappropriate e-mail relationship with a 16-year old girl.
Mark Walker was also banned of teaching because he cared so little about his pupils that he used teaching time to use school equipment to further his own business interests.This is someone who is the secretary of Durham BNP, the party which claims to put Britain and British people first.
Mark Walkers disgusting behaviour is not a rare occurrence unfortunately. Just months earlier, his brother Adam Walker appeared at Newton Aycliffe court to face charges relating to an incident in which he is accused of driving his car at a group of youngsters before brandishing a knife and threatening a child. The court heard that the incident left an 11 year old and a 12 year old child “terrified”.
With characters like the Walkers trying but yet again failing to represent the North East electorate it is no wonder that the people of the region have been wise enough not to vote a single BNP candidate onto our councils. The ever underlying racism and vile behaviour that runs right through the BNP goes against the North East’s proud traditions of solidarity and fairness. Once again, the region have seen through the hypocrisy of the BNP and know what they really stand for.
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