Teacher who French kissed pupil avoids jail

Keith Ogunsola, 44, from Surrey, grabbed the 14-year-old in his office and put his tongue in her mouth.

He denied, but was convicted of, sexual assault.

Judge Martyn Zeidman QC, sentencing Ogunsola at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, said guidelines suggested a community sentence would be appropriate for the offence but the breach of trust had increased its seriousness.

He sentenced Ogunsola to 12 weeks imprisonment but suspended the sentence for 12 months.

The judge imposed a sexual offences prevention order, which banned Ogunsola from working in a paid or unpaid capacity with girls under the age of 18.

He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Ogunsola will have to sign the sex offenders register.

Judge Zeidman told Ogunsola: "Bearing in mind this was an offence by a schoolteacher, a department head, upon a child in your charge, it's such a huge breach of trust and it had the degree of persistence that in these circumstances, when it is committed on a young child, a 14-year-old, I regard the sentence set out as being too lenient.

"I, for that reason, go outside that guideline. It seems to me this is a case that warrants a custodial sentence."

The judge said he took into account Ogunsola's heart problems in his sentencing and the effect an immediate prison term might have on his health.

"What you have done does not deserve the death penalty," he said.