A teacher asked a 13-year-old girl he met online if she wanted to meet up to have sex.
Mohamed Dahir Mohamed, 34, was working at The Kingston Academy in south west London when he was arrested by police in 2023.
In April of that year, the science teacher had paired with a female on a chatroom site who said she was 13 – but was actually a decoy profile set up by police to catch paedophiles.
After claiming he was 19 and from north London, he added them on Snapchat and proceeded to send sexualised messages over a number of weeks.
The messages included asking if the child wanted to meet up for sex, suggesting that the meet in a park where he would kiss and digitally penetrate her, and asking for images.
The email address and phone number associated with the Snapchat account were linked to Mohamed and he was arrested at the school on November 9, 2023.
He later pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
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At Kingston Crown Court in January last year he received a six month sentence which was suspended for 18 months.
He was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for seven years and a sexual harm prevention order was made.
Last month (February 2026) a Teaching Regulation Agency concluded that Mohamed should be banned from teaching in the UK indefinitely.
The panel noted that there had been no previous safeguarding concerns during his employment as a teacher but concluded that he posed a “considerable potential risk of serious harm to a child”.
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