Masturbation remark teacher was ‘just trying to help girl’

  A teacher who told a pupil she should try masturbating to relieve stress escaped a ban after a panel ruled he was ‘motivated by his desire to help’. Paul Gibbinson told the girl not to tell anyone about their conversation but when he saw her a few days later he asked if she had ‘tried that thing yet’. The pupil had confided in her tutor about the problems she was having at home and with her boyfriend, the National…