Teacher claimed pupil accuser was a fantasist who had just ‘read a book’

A chemistry teacher accused of sexually abusing two pupils claimed one was a besotted ‘pest’ who tried to force his way into her home. Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, is accused of having relationships with two boys at Christ’s College in Finchley, north London when they were aged 14 and 15 in the late 1980s. The teacher – then aged 25 – allegedly ‘engaged in flirtatious conduct’ with the pupils and had sex with the first boy ‘20 to 30 times’ over…