At 28 years-old, Eleanor Wilson’s career is over. The Bristol physics teacher, has been struck off after allegations from a pupil that she had sex with him on a plane coming back from Geneva after a school trip.

The boy, known only as Pupil A, claimed that they had sex in August 2015, as well as a relationship, where they met several times outside school and engaged in “kissing and inappropriate touching.”

A tribunal decided that he was a credible witness and found Eleanor guilty of unacceptable professional conduct, and bringing the profession into disrepute.

Now her brother Jethro has spoken out on Wilson's behalf, claiming that the boy had made the allegations against his sister after she rejected him.

“There’s no doubt about it - he had a crush on her,” he said. “They were away on an educational school trip and she didn’t want anything to do with them, so they made stories up about her.