A former Hockerill Anglo-European College teacher has been banned from schools for five years after he kissed a student and wrote her a six-page “emotional outpouring of his feelings”. Lewis Fitchett, who will be 35 later this month, had been a maths tutor at the Bishop’s Stortford secondary since 2015, rising to second in command in the faculty at the time of the incident in May 2022. A Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) professional conduct panel heard evidence from Pupil A, who was 18 at the time and preparing to leave the Dunmow Road school. She said that on May 26, 2022, Mr Fitchett message…
