Pedophile UK teacher caught in Cameroon

Conrad Abenaty had been given a three year community order and told to register as a sex offender.

A former teacher who left the country to work at a school in Africa in breach of a court order imposed for sexual activity with a 16-year-old girl pupil has been jailed for nine months.

Conrad Abenaty had been given a three year community order and told to register as a sex offender with a number of strict conditions for the offence involving the schoolgirl.

But having first obeyed the order he failed to keep two appointments with his supervisor and he then left the United Kingdom to take up the role of Deputy Headmaster at a school in Cameroon.

“He was given a chance by the court and for a long time he took that chance,” said Simon Hunka, defending, who told the court Abenaty was not a lothario but someone who had been involved in a “single inappropriate” incident.

Mr Hunka described Abenaty as an “intelligent, articulate, highly educated” man who had made 179 unsuccessful applications for work after his court appearance. Then, when he was given the opportunity to work in Cameroon, he grabbed it with both hands but in the end it did not work out.

“He was so unhappy with the way things were here and he took the wrong decision,” said Mr Hunka. “He failed to heed the advice he had been given.” He told Wolverhampton Crown Court that after returning to the United Kingdom Abenaty had applied for a further 38 jobs but they too had not met with success and that had left him at a “very low ebb.”

“It was a quite deliberate decision by you to flout the law,” Judge John Warner told Abenaty after he squandered the chance of keeping his freedom. Abenaty 50 of Hagley Road West, Oldbury admitted three breaches of the order and it was revoked the Judge who ruled he would now have to serve a term of imprisonment.

“You left the country when you were told not to do so,” said the Judge at Wolverhampton Crown Court.