A TEACHING assistant who had an affair with a pupil has been arrested after jetting off for a sunshine holiday – breaching his bail conditions.

Detectives boarded an inbound flight at Manchester Airport from Tenerife last Friday to catch Christopher Reen.

The 32-year-old, who worked at Headlands School in Bridlington, was arrested in front of an estimated 250 passengers, his wife and child for breaching the sex offenders' register and the terms of his bail by failing to notify the courts and police of his holiday.

Reen is due to be sentenced tomorrow after he pleaded guilty to six counts of sexual activity with a child and of having sex with a person under 18 while in a position of trust after he had an affair with a pupil while he worked at the secondary school.

Despite signing the sex offenders' register and being told to have residence at his home in Bridlington at either Carlton Avenue or Mount Drive, he jetted off for the seven-day family holiday to Canary island to get a last-minute suntan before facing a lengthy sentence behind bars.

Detectives from Humberside Police were at Manchester Airport and waited on the ground to immediately board the flight as it landed.

He appeared at Beverley Magistrates' Court on Saturday for the breaches and has been remanded in custody until he is sentenced.

The sex offenders' register states people must notify the police of any change of home address and give seven days notification of any plans to travel abroad for a period of three days or longer.

He could now face a maximum five-year sentence for the breach.

Reen did not have to hand in his passport as part of his bail conditions as this is only done for foreign nationals who pose a flight risk.

He was given bail while a pre-sentence report was prepared on him by the Probation Service to look at the length of sentence he must face.

Judge David Tremberg warned Reen on February 1 to expect a significant prison sentence.

Reen was a classroom assistant at Headlands School when he started an affair with a 15-year-old pupil.

He had replaced a teacher at the scandal-hit school who had been sacked for sending inappropriate text messages to a pupil.

Reen is the fifth member of staff at the school to be involved in a sex scandal with a pupil.

He pleaded his innocence for more than a year by claiming he did not know her age, despite teaching her class. Newly-wed Reen, who also ran a martial arts business, sent the girl more than 800 text messages during their three-month relationship.

He even bragged in court he was sending sexually explicit texts to six women at the same time, despite having recently married, claiming it was to give him a "thrill and a buzz".