Prosecution 'forgot' to ban teacher

Prosecutors forgot to seek an order preventing trainee teacher Luke Sadowski from working with children on his release from a three-year jail sentence on sex charges, it emerged today.

Sadowski, 19, who admitted using the internet to try and buy a nine-year-old girl for sex, was caught by undercover police and jailed at Southwark Crown Court on 11 August by Judge Gerald Gordon.

Today Sadowski appeared before Common Serjeant of London Peter Beaumont at Snaresbrook Crown Court where Lisa Wilding, prosecuting, said the prosecution had forgotten to ask the court for the restraining order.

But Judge Beaumont was powerless to make the order today because it must be made by the sentencing judge - and he is on holiday.

Judge Gordon is now set to return on 5 September to hear the application.