Teacher’s texts to dancer

A PE teacher sent hundreds of ‘flirtatious’ texts to a 14-year-old dancer, a hearing was told. Jamie Hughes also discussed tying up the teenager and taping up her mouth while working part-time at Phoenix Collegiate in West Bromwich, West Midlands. The child’s mother said she found Hughes’ telephone number saved as ‘Harry Potter’ on the teenager’s phone and read a series of disturbing messages from the teacher. The National College for Teaching and Leadership was told a police investigation was…