Louis Kisitu Ssekabira
Introduction
Louis Kisitu Ssekabira is a former maths teacher who was prohibited from teaching in December 2025 after admitting that police found hundreds of other people’s payment-card details and online-banking login credentials on his devices, which he intended to use fraudulently. On 5 May 2020, while teaching at Droitwich Spa High School, officers executing a search warrant seized a MacBook, an iPhone XR and an iPhone 5S from his home; across the three devices they found 262 sets of card details and 69 sets of login credentials in other people’s names. He accepted a police caution for possession of articles used to commit fraud in June 2021 β while employed at his next school β admitted the facts before a Teaching Regulation Agency panel on an agreed statement, and was banned indefinitely with a review possible only after five years.
Background Information
Ssekabira, born 4 May 1995, taught mathematics at Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre from 1 September 2019 to 31 December 2020, then at Bishop Challenor Catholic Federation of Schools in London from January 2021 until August 2022, when he left. The police search of his home took place on 5 May 2020, during his first teaching post; he attended a voluntary police interview that October. In July 2021 his then-employer reported the caution to the TRA, recording that he had been cautioned for possession of articles used to commit fraud β 262 sets of card details and 69 logins for online banking in other people’s names. He left his second school in August 2022, and signed a statement of agreed facts admitting the allegations in May 2025.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Fully admitted conduct case. This was a regulatory case decided on admissions: Ssekabira admitted the alleged facts in a signed statement of agreed facts and admitted unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute, and the case was considered without a hearing. He accepted a police caution β an admission of the offence β though he was not prosecuted, and no conviction appears in the published record.
The panel found proved that on or around 5 May 2020 Ssekabira was in possession of around 262 sets of card details and around 69 logins for online banking in other people’s names, and intended to use them fraudulently. On the agreed facts: the seized MacBook held 235 sets of card details and 62 sets of login credentials; the iPhone XR held 11 and 2 respectively; the iPhone 5S held 16 and 5. He admitted the devices were his, that he knew of the details, and that he intended to use them to commit fraud. The panel found proved that on 25 June 2021 he accepted a police caution for possession of articles used to commit fraud, contrary to the Fraud Act 2006, and that to accept the caution he had admitted the offence; a PNC printout confirmed the caution. It noted minor discrepancies in the paperwork β a 2020/2021 date typo and a different Fraud Act section number on the PNC β but found “clear consistent evidence” of what the caution covered. He was found to have acted dishonestly.
The panel treated the conduct as an abuse of the trust placed in a teacher β intending to use others’ card details and banking logins “to the detriment of members of the public” β and found his behaviour fundamentally breached the standard of conduct expected of a teacher. It considered the caution a serious criminal matter for these purposes and found the dishonesty findings engaged the Advice’s fraud-and-serious-dishonesty provisions, which weigh in favour of a longer period before any review. Character evidence described an upright colleague who had been “instrumental in the transformation of the department”, and one reference said he had expressed “deep remorse in making such a serious mistake” β but the panel remained concerned about the extent of his insight, noting his failure to be fully transparent with his employer about the caution.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published decision documents institutional consequences rather than public debate. The discovery was made by police executing a search warrant, not by either school; the first school appears in the record only through the timeline of his employment, the second through its July 2021 referral of the caution to the TRA after a police officer sought to speak to school leaders about him. The caution β accepted with an admission of the offence β resolved the criminal side without prosecution, and the consequences that followed were professional: he left his second school in August 2022 and the regulatory case concluded three years later. No victim losses or financial-harm findings appear in the published decision.
Current Status
The panel recommended a prohibition order with a five-year review period, invoking the Advice’s fraud-or-serious-dishonesty provision for a longer period before review while finding none of the no-review categories engaged. The decision maker, Marc Cavey, agreed on 10 December 2025 on behalf of the Secretary of State: Ssekabira is prohibited from teaching indefinitely, cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England, and may apply for the order to be set aside no earlier than 15 December 2030 β not an automatic right. The determination is dated 5 December 2025; the order takes effect when served, with a right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The ban ends a teaching career that spanned two schools between 2019 and 2022 and makes any return contingent on a five-year wait and a successful application from December 2030 β with the regulator’s fraud-and-dishonesty findings and its stated concern about his insight into failing to be transparent with his employer shaping what a future panel would require. The police caution remains on his criminal record as an admitted offence. The panel’s finding that he had ability as an educator sat alongside its conclusion that the adverse public-interest considerations outweighed any interest in retaining him, because his behaviour “fundamentally breached the standard of conduct expected of a teacher”.