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A teacher encouraged pupils to take part in bondage sessions at his home while supplying them with drink and drugs, a professional hearing has been told.

A General Teaching Council for Wales hearing found teacher Glyn Bevan, 55, had committed “unacceptable professional conduct”, and will meet again today to discuss what sanction should be imposed.

Mr Bevan was accused of inviting pupils, aged between 14 and 16, to his home in the mid-1990s while working as a French teacher at Risca Community Comprehensive School near Newport, South Wales, WalesOnline reports.

Mr Bevan, who resigned in 2012, was charged in November 2010 with three counts of indecent assault of a boy under 16 which he denied.

Pupil A’s police statement said he and some of his school friends would attend Mr Bevan’s house on a regular basis and that Mr Bevan would provide them with alcohol and drugs and that they would play card games that led to “tying up games”.

Pupil A said on one occasion he was tied up and on the floor when Mr Bevan, who was known by the boys as “Mr X”, straddled him.

In a police statement, Mr Bevan had said Pupil A was above school age when he visited, that they supplied him with drugs rather than the other way round and that the tying up was not sexually motivated.

Police had searched Mr Bevan’s home and discovered gaffer tape and rope in his living room and hundreds of “inappropriate” photos – some framed and on display - of teenage boys showing drug-taking and bondage.

Detective Constable Helen Smith said they tracked down 26 people from the images but only 10 were prepared to make statements.

The hearing was also told how Mr Bevan failed to attend court in April 2011 and was found by police living in woodland in the Forest of Dean.

Mr Bevan, who suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2009, was acquitted in 2012 after he was declared unfit to stand trial and the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence.

The teaching council hearing, which Mr Bevan did not attend and was not represented at, was told how diary entries, believed to have been written by Mr Bevan, were found at his house.

Presenting officer Martin Jones suggested that in one entry Mr Bevan was referring to a pupil named only as "Pupil T" when he wrote: “After next week we don’t have to do any more work, not that we’ve done any for ages, how can I concentrate on teaching when he’s with me?”

A joint statement by Caerphilly council and Risca Community Comprehensive School said: “As soon as allegations against Mr Bevan came to light in November 2010 he was suspended from work by the school and the issue was then dealt with by the police.”