Kandice Barber, who had sex with a 15-year-old boy, has been freed from prison
A teacher jailed after having sex with a pupil has been freed – but will still never be able to go near a school again.
Kandice Barber was sentenced to six years and three months in March 2021
for having sex with a 15-year-old boy in a field while employed at Princes Risborough School in Buckinghamshire.
The now 37-year-old also sent him explicit messages and pictures and threatened to ‘take him down’ if he told senior members of staff.
A teaching standard panel banned the mother-of-three, who was married at the time, from teaching for life.
Barber was eligible for release in April this year, but because she was convicted and remanded in custody awaiting her sentence in January 2021, she was freed at the end of February, the MailOnline reports.
This comes despite reportedly breaking rules in prison to have a relationship with a female inmate.
Her privileges were revoked after it’s said she met up with convicted fraudster Jay Delaney while on day release and working at a building site in Hounslow, west London.
Kandice Barber and Delaney took selfies while out on day release
The pair took selfies of themselves, which were found by prison authorities.
A source told the MailOnline: ‘(Barber) can consider herself very fortunate to be released at the halfway point of her sentence after such a serious infringement of prison rules.’
Barber sent explicit messages and topless pictures to the pupil
In reference to Barber’s early release, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson said today: ‘Sex offenders face some of the strictest licence conditions and can be put back behind bars if they break the rules at any point in their sentence.’
Barber has maintained she’s innocent of her convictions.
The teaching panel heard she texted the teen on Snapchat. At one point she wrote ‘You cannot make me blush while I am teaching now, poker face lol.’
She also sent the boy explicit messages, topless photos, and a picture of her surrounded by sex toys.
Kandice Barber, 35, leaves Aylesbury Crown Court, Buckinghamshire, in September 2020, with her then husband Daniel (Picture: PA)
The pair reportedly want to carry on their relationship on the outside
She flirted with the teenager during a school assembly and sent other texts like ‘do you like boobs or bum?’.
The trial judge branded her actions ‘beyond despicable’.
Her behaviour came to light when one photo came to the attention of the headteacher because it had been seen by so many people.
According to the teaching panel hearing, the boy became withdrawn and confined himself to his room as a result.
Barber, now 37, maintains she’s innocent
Delaney, from Southend, Essex, was sentenced to five years in prison last April for a £388,000 fraud.
She would tell her victims, many of whom were friends and colleagues, that she worked for Aviva and could turn a £5,500 investment into £10,000 within a couple of years.
Some invested most of their life-saving into the ‘scheme’. It turned out she was transferring the money into her own account and gambling it online, Essex Live reported.
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