Ban for teacher who had zoo date with pupil

A trainee teacher who romanced a 16-year-old schoolgirl on Facebook and took her on a date to the zoo has been barred from the profession. Oscar Gibbon, 24, was seen holding hands with the teenager and kissing her while they strolled around Colchester Zoo, Essex, on 8 August 2016. Gibbon had given the Year 11 pupil ‘lingering looks’ while he taught her at Great Yarmouth VA High School, in Salisbury Road, Norfolk, months earlier. He was warned not to contact…