A TEACHER previously suspended for selling cigarettes to pupils has been banned for two years for making inappropriate sexual remarks to students.

Fiona Forster, a former teacher at Meopham School, was working at Wilmington Enterprise College, when she made the remarks about sexual behaviour of Year 8 pupils to sixth form students.

The General Teaching Council panel last Friday agreed Ms Forster should be banned from teaching for two years.

In November 2006, Ms Forster was suspended for six months after CCTV footage showed her selling cigarettes to underage pupils while a supply teacher at Meopham School and was suspended for six months.

The panel found Ms Forster, 45, who now lives abroad, guilty of professional misconduct while she was working at the school previously known at Wilmington Hall School in January 2007.

Ms Forster, formerly of Tunbridge Wells, did not attend the hearing due to stress.

After two years she can re-apply to teach students in the UK. Ms Forster has 28 days to appeal the panel’s decision.