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A CONVICTED football hooligan landed a job at a Rainhill school after hiding his chequered past.

But Everton fan David Bradwell Walsh, 51, was rumbled during record checks after securing a permanent job as an English teacher at Rainhill High School in St Helens.

He has now been struck off and handed a two-year ban by school staff watchdog The General Teaching Council (GTC).

Despite a string of offences Walsh had been employed at Rainhill and other schools as a supply teacher.

His criminal past includes assaulting a club steward after he was refused entry to Goodison Park’s main stand during Everton’s 2-1 defeat to Tottenham on February 21, 2007.

He was convicted of battery and banned from football matches in England and Wales for three years.

He also received a 12-month community order.

His banning order expired in May 2010. They normally ban access from all grounds in England and Wales.

The previous year he was given a fixed penalty notice for attempting to steal a pair of ladies shoes from a Warrington shop.

He also has a string of motoring offences between 2001-2007 including drink driving and driving while disqualified and without insurance.

St Helens Council believes he escaped detection as a supply teachers agency’s criminal record checks pre-dated the offences.

But the GTC heard his past came back to haunt him when council staff carried out their own checks when he secured a job as an English teacher at Rainhill in April 2008.

Issuing the ban the GTC said he was guilty of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’ for not disclosing the offences on his application form.

Committee chairman Paul Bird said: “We have a particular concern as to the conviction of battery and the fixed penalty notice for theft of ladies shoes.”

He added: “We have real concerns as to the role model of Mr Walsh and the reputational damage to the profession.”

When his past came to light Mr Walsh, who resigned, told the school he ‘was not proud of the convictions’.

A St Helens Council spokesman said: “He was employed by a supply teaching agency who had carried out a satisfactory CRB check.

“It was only later upon appointment at the school, when the council carried out a CRB check, that the offences came to light which had occurred after the original check.”