Overview
- An Education Workforce Council panel found repeated sexualised misconduct proven, including exposing himself to staff and showing explicit images and a video.
- The decision removes James Richards from the Wales teaching register and bans him from school roles in Wales, with no reinstatement considered before November 2040.
- Five women gave evidence about incidents across a decade, including on school premises and a trip, describing trauma and fear of reporting at the time.
- Richards declined interviews and was absent from the hearing after claiming ill health, a claim undermined by council fraud footage of him driving and playing golf.
- An internal probe noted a missing school laptop alleged to hold explicit material, and South Wales Police decided in 2021 there was no criminal case.