Overview
- The Teaching Regulation Agency has barred Annika Kiran Kapur from teaching in England indefinitely, with a chance to seek a review after April 2028.
- The panel ruled her conduct was unacceptable professional conduct because pupils were placed at risk while she was in charge.
- Kapur told the panel she drank from a water bottle that held gin and lemon during a lesson, said she chugged it to stop vomiting, and later threw up in the staff toilet.
- Staff reported slurred speech, unsteady movement, and lost classroom control as pupils asked if she was drunk, while Kapur disputed an allegation that she pulled a pupil by the hair.
- Djanogly City Academy had already ended her contract in 2025 following the incident, and the principal stressed clear safeguarding expectations for staff.