Overview
- The Teaching Regulation Agency imposed a prohibition order that bars Annika Kapur from teaching for at least two years, with eligibility to apply for review after 23 April 2028.
- The panel found she drank gin and lemon from a water bottle during a lesson and kept teaching after consuming about a third of it.
- Members of staff reported slurred speech, swaying, and vomiting in the staff toilet, and one said she lifted a pupil’s head by his hair.
- Kapur told investigators the bottle was left in her bag after a birthday weekend and said she realized too late but could not spit it out in front of pupils.
- She started at Djanogly City Academy in August 2024, was suspended in January 2025 and dismissed two months later, in a case the regulator framed as a safeguarding failure rather than preplanned misconduct.