An art teacher who told a pupil he had fallen in love with her has been jailed for 30 months for kissing and groping her in his car.
Simon Shaw, 46, claimed he was in love with the girl he kissed on two occasions and groped another two times, heard Portsmouth Crown Court in Hampshire.
The victim went to police in 2017, by which time she was an adult, after hearing Shaw was jailed for grooming another child at a different school, the court was told.
Prosecutor Paul Fairley told how Shaw pulled her in for a hug and kiss and said he loved her and he would miss her more than the others when she left Cowplain School in Waterlooville.