'High-risk' rapist won teaching job

A convicted rapist with no qualifications secured a job as an English teacher after supplying a false CV, a court heard today.

Detectives charged with monitoring Mark Bradshaw - described in reports as "very high risk" - knew about his job but failed to inform the school, it was claimed.

In his bogus CV Bradshaw, 45, claimed to have maths and English postgraduate degrees from the nonexistent Bath Spa University, and A-level and TEFL qualifications.

He also falsely stated he had experience as an ambulance driver.

Bradshaw admitted deception moments before his trial was due to start at Blackfriars Crown Court.

He was jailed for six years at the Old Bailey in September 1995 after he was convicted of rape and attempted rape. It emerged at the time that he had attacked a resident in a hotel while on home leave from a sentence for raping a woman in a minicab office.

After serving three-quarters of the sentence he was released on licence and ordered to register as a sex offender.

In November 2002 he approached the Skilled Hands Employment Agency and asked them to find him a job as an English teacher.

His apparently glowing CV was handed to Rosalind Boote, director of studies at the London Skills Institute language school in Kentish-Town. Impressed with what she read, Ms Boote invited the rapist for an interview and offered him a job.

Bradshaw held the post of a fulltime English teacher of foreign students for eight months.

The court heard how a local journalist unearthed Bradshaw's disturbing history. An anonymous letter was sent to the head teacher and he was asked to leave.

Adjourning sentence for reports today Judge Colin Smith said: "There is an important public interest in the truth being told in relation to these applications and there was a blatant lie told here."

Bradshaw, of Stoke Newington, pleaded guilty to one charge of deception. He was released on unconditional bail.

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