EDUCATION watchdogs are today being urged to launch an investigation following a bizarre row over whether police investigated a rogue teacher at a Hampshire school.

Tyrone Mark was sacked from The Arnewood School in New Milton and subsequently expelled from the profession after it emerged that he had given a girl pupil alcohol, condoms and even a key to his house.

As previously reported by the Daily Echo, he also wrote sexually explicit notes about many of her fellow pupils, some of whom featured in school photographs he hoarded at his home.

Shortly after he was banned from teaching Arnewood said police had investigated the 38-year-old geography teacher and found no evidence of any criminal activity.

But officers have now responded to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request from a worried parent – and revealed that no such investigation took place.

The row took a new twist last night after Arnewood insisted it had received a Hampshire County Council email confirming that police had ultimately decided to take no action against Mr Mark.

And the county council insisted that officers were involved in an investigation – despite their denial.

The latest developments follow a campaign by John Caine, of New Milton, whose son Jonathan, 18, used to go to the school and was taught by Mr Mark for about two years.

Mr Caine is demanding to knowif his son features in any of the material that was collected by the teacher over a ten-year period.

The police investigation was said to have been carried out by officers in Dorset, where Mr Mark lived.

But the reply to Mr Caine’s FoI request says: “Dorset police were not involved in any investigation of the matter.

“This matter was not dealt with by Dorset police. We received no file of any sort from the school or any other involved party.”

Hampshire police have also denied any involvement.

Mr Caine accused the school of staging a cover-up and said he had urged Ofsted to launch an investigation.

“It’s important that parents and pupils know the truth,” he said.

As reported in the Daily Echo, Mr Mark was banned by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) in July after being found guilty of professional misconduct.

An NCTL report said he gave the girl alcohol, condoms and a key to his house.

It added: “Mr Mark kept photographs in folders alongside Post It notes on which he made appalling comments of a graphically sexual nature in relation to pupils, many of whom were shown in the photographs.”

At the time Arnewood said Mr Mark had been investigated by police.

A statement said: “We would like to reassure parents that the police investigated these matters and found no criminal activity by Mr Mark had taken place.”

The photographs are still in the possession of the NCTL, but a Department for Education spokesman said they would be handed over to Arnewood “in due course”.

Ofsted said it never commented on whether a complaint had been made about an individual school.