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A teacher could be banned from the classroom after he used a mobile phone to film up schoolgirls’ skirts.

Andrew Corish, 60, used the phone to peer between children’s legs while an assistant headteacher at Coloma Convent Girls’ School in Croydon.

He also stored the images and admitted doing so for sexual gratification.

Corish was never convicted in court for his behaviour because it does not constitute a criminal offence. However, he faces a possible teaching ban after admitting the allegations to a professional misconduct panel on Monday.

When confronted by the Standard at his £600,000 five-bedroom home in Caterham, Surrey, he said: “I don’t really want to make any comments at all because my solicitors have advised me not to make any.”

Asked whether he would like to apologise to his victims, he said: “I can assure you that the information provided to the [misconduct] hearing included the apologies you’re mentioning.”

The Standard also asked why he committed the acts and if he still worked with children.

He said: “Again, I don’t want to make any further comments.”

The National College for Teaching and Leadership misconduct panel heard that Corish admitted all the allegations in a witness statement.

He said he had used a mobile “to film up the skirt of one or more pupils” and stored “one or more inappropriate images taken up the skirts of pupils, including videos”.

Panel chair Professor Roger Woods ruled: “The panel is satisfied that the conduct of Mr Corish in relation to the facts found proven involved breaches of the teachers’ standards.”

It will consider whether to recommend sanctions or a ban to the Education Secretary.

Corish pleaded guilty to voyeurism at Croydon magistrates’ court in April last year.

The plea was rejected a month later at Croydon crown court, by judge Warwick McKinnon, because voyeurism should involve “observing a private act for sexual gratification”.

None of the victims were filmed during a private act, it was concluded.

The Crown Prosecution Service applied for indecent images of children charges to be added, but the judge ruled the images “were not of an indecent nature”.

“As a result, the CPS offered no evidence,” a spokesman said, meaning Corish was acquitted.

A spokesman for the school said: “When it was reported to the school we acted immediately in 2015 to suspend the teacher concerned and he then resigned with immediate effect.”

He said the school assisted the police and council investigation, reported the matter to the NCTL, and “strengthened our safeguarding procedures”.