A teacher jailed for sleeping with a 15-year-old boy is now working as a gate guard while on prison release.
Kandice Barber, 37, was jailed for six years and two months in 2021 after she was found to have taken an underage boy to a field for sex.
But sources say she has been working at a council site in west London since May, according to The Sun.
One of the sources was reported to have said: ‘Kandice turned up about two months ago, which was a complete shock because she should have still been behind bars.’
The mother-of-three from Wendover, Buckinghamshire, was found to have sent a student nude images of herself and threatened to ‘take him down’ if he told staff about their encounters.
Sources say Barber (pictured) has been working at a council site in west London since May
Last year, it was revealed Kandice was still seeing her husband, Daniel (pictured left)
Wates Construction, her current employer, confirmed Barber is on temporary release.
Temporary release is designed to help reintegrate inmates before their release.
Barber was found to have abused a underage student at a school in Princes Risborough, sending him topless photos.
She later drove them to a field where they had sex, courts heard.
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The victim said the assault took place between October 11, 2018 and immediately before the half term.
Ultimately, Barber was reported after a photo shared with the child was circulated widely and reached the head teacher of the school.
She was found guilty of one count of causing or inciting a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity.
At another trial the year before, Barber was convicted of sending a topless picture of herself to the boy and a video in which she was pleasuring herself with a sex toy.
After the second trial at Aylesbury Crown Court, Recorder Bal Dhaliwal described Barber’s grooming of the teenager as ‘beyond despicable.’
Last year, it was revealed she was still seeing her husband, Daniel.
He posted a photo after her sentence featuring a Superman t-shirt and kissing emoji alongside a caption saying ‘always’.
At the time, Daniel described the verdict as ‘a joke’.
Teacher Kandice Barber, 35, leaves Aylesbury Crown Court after being found guilty of two sex offence charges related to sending topless Snapchat pictures to a 15-year-old student. Picture date: Tuesday September 15, 2020
Jailing Barber at Aylesbury Crown Court in 2021, Recorder Bal Dhaliwal said Barber had ‘acted in gross breach of trust’ and had taken ‘advantage of a child in your care and groomed him for your own sexual gratification’.
She told the teacher: ‘The victim was a 15-year-old boy in his final year at school. You had control and authority over him. He felt drawn in by you due to the compliments, you caused him to engage in sex with you while he was a pupil in your care.
