EDUCATION chiefs are being urged to investigate a Hampshire head teacher at the centre of claims that parents were “misled” over a disgraced ex-tutor.

Chris Hummerstone, who runs The Arnewood School in New Milton, has been reported to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) by the parent of a former pupil.

As reported in the Daily Echo, geography teacher Tyrone Mark, 39, was sacked from Arnewood after starting a relationship with a student. Mr Mark gave the teenager alcohol, condoms and even a key to his house.

He also wrote sexually explicit notes about many of her fellow pupils – some of whom featured in school photographs he kept at his home.

Last year he was found guilty of professional misconduct and banned from teaching for life by the NCTL.

Arnewood issued a statement saying a police investigation had found no evidence of any criminal behaviour by the tutor. But John Caine, whose son Jonathan, 18, was taught by Mr Mark, submitted a Freedom of Inform-ation Act request and discovered that no such probe had taken place. He has now complained to the NCTL, part of the Department for Education.

In his letter to the organisation Mr Caine, of Ashtree Close, New Milton, claims the school misled parents. He also says that parents were kept in the dark and only learned about Mr Mark’s behaviour after the Daily Echo revealed that he had been barred from teaching.

His letter calls for families to be shown all the notes and photographs found at the teacher’s Dorset home.

“Parents of all children appearing in this material should have been informed of the material and provided with a copy of it as it pertained to their child,” says Mr Caine.

“It should not have been kept from them. Parents still do not know if their children appeared in this material or not.”

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The NCTL confirmed that it had received Mr Caine’s letter, which would be discussed at a panel meeting.

An Arnewood spokesman said the school had not been notified of the complaint and added: “It would be inappropriate for us to say anything at this stage.”

Arnewood has repeatedly defended the statement it issued last year, saying it had received written confirmation from Hampshire County Council that police were taking no further action.

However, neither Arnewood nor the county council has been able to produce the relevant letter or e-mail.

The statement, issued shortly after Mr Mark was banned from the profession, also said the school had been “unable to discuss the matter publicly until now”.

Last month the Daily Echo revealed that police were now investigating Mr Mark’s behaviour and were examining material found at his home.