Teacher sacked over 'lewd act' with broomstick may have been set up She was dismissed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands in 2006 for alleged misconduct, with the broomstick allegation counting crucially against her. But Lord Justice Elias ruled there was a "considerable amount of evidence" Miss Davies may have been the subject of a whispering campaign orchestrated by children at Willingsworth High School in Tipton. Miss Davies's case was rejected last year by an employment tribunal but her representative, Ivan Yates, told the Court of Appeal in London there was powerful evidence that contradicted the children's story. Attendance registers indicate that two of the pupils who made statements condemning her were absent from school at the time, while records are said to show that the teacher, from Wolverhampton, had in fact been teaching Hooke's Law of Elasticity on the day in question. Hooke's Law states that the extension of an elastic object is directly proportional to the force applied to it. It was not clear how the broomstick was used to teach the lesson, but Mr Yates said it was a suitable prop. "On that date, she provides something appropriate - which was a broom - to demonstrate Hooke's Law," he said. She had taught the class static electricity on another day and the two lessons have been conflated together to make something salacious. You have got statements from children not in the lesson and you've got the lesson on the wrong day. Lord Justice Elias granted Miss Davies permission to argue her case at the Court of Appeal after hearing there was evidence the allegation was an unreliable part of schoolyard "folk history." He acknowledged there was "some possibility that there may have been some sort of conspiracy by the pupils to fabricate the incident." He said: "There was a considerable amount of evidence that (the pupils) might not have accurately described what had happened. There was also the classroom register, which recorded that two of the pupils who made statements were not even present on that day. Outside court afterwards, Miss Davies said: "I know what's gone on. I'm fed up with what's happened to me. Her case will now proceed to a full Appeal Court hearing.