Vivienne Williams, 30, was teaching at Elsley Primary School in Wembley when she tried to send parcels laced with ‘spice’ – a synthetic form of cannabis – worth an estimated £17,000 to prisons in Wandsworth, Nottingham and Cardiff.
Williams was jailed for two and a half years in October 2023 and has now banned from teaching for life following a probe by the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA).
A court had previously heard that Williams sent a number of disguised packages into HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire.
The packages arrived at the prison but were intercepted by guards.
Packages were later recovered at her address on Tudor Court North, Wembley, addressed to other prisons including HMP Wandsworth and Cardiff.
Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to convey banned articles into prison, possession of articles for use in fraud, and a communications offence relating to the prison phone calls.
On February 21, TRA decision maker Sarah Buxcey decided Williams’ behaviour “fell significantly shorts of the standards expected of the profession”.
Ms Buxcey found that her behaviour was “totally incompatible with being a teacher”.
Williams had joined Elsley Primary School in September 2016.
On June 8, 2021, the school was informed that Williams had been arrested six days previously.
Williams resigned from the school a week later.
Following her sentencing, Det Insp Richard Cornell from Nottinghamshire Police said: “Williams was a key player in this plot to supply mind-altering drugs to prisoners.
“She exploited her legitimate phone access to an inmate by patching in others to the calls, enabling them to make their criminal plans, and then followed through with those plans by assisting in the movement of the drugs.”
