Kato Harris said having no job was better than being in jail for a crime he didn’t commit

A geography teacher subjected to false allegations of rape by a 14-year-old pupil at a private girls’ school says that he can no longer see why “any man in his right mind” would become a teacher.

With one in five teachers being falsely accused of some form of misconduct by a pupil during their career, Kato Harris said it was like “buying a lottery ticket” for a man to join the profession.

Mr Harris, 38, was accused of raping and sodomising the girl three times at the London school in the autumn term of 2013 after inviting her into a classroom during the lunch break.

He was cleared in court of all charges, with the jury taking only 26 minutes to deliberate. The swift verdict