A former head teacher who grabbed her breasts and told a pupil his body was "too sexy" after getting drunk on a school trip will not be struck off the teaching register.

Gillian Rew made inappropriate comments, including swearing and telling a pupil his chest was "sexier than her husband's", during the incident in Lockerbie.

The 49-year-old also held onto her breasts and put crisps between them as pupils watched, a General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS) hearing was told.

Ms Rew, who was fired from her post at Arbroath High after the revelations emerged, admitted to the charges and said she had "no memory" of the event in 2014.

The hearing was told Ms Rew was in a state of "extreme psychological distress" at the time owing to a "significant event" in her personal life.

In its outcome on the hearing, the panel wrote: "At the same time, (she had) taken on a demanding job, made more demanding by the loss of her usual sources of professional and personal support.

"She had turned to alcohol. During the school session starting in August 2014, she had kept things under control, but when she had gone out of the school and onto the trip in September 2014, her psychological distress had caused her to deviate from professional standards in a way she had never done before, and the panel was satisfied is very unlikely ever to occur again."

Despite this, the panel stressed Ms Rew's behaviour was "highly inappropriate" and a dereliction of her duty as the trip's designated child protection officer.

The panel noted that the pupils involved were senior boys who dealt with their headteacher's behaviour in a "mature fashion".

Ms Rew accepted she had "acted inappropriately", saying she had drunk eight plastic cups of sauvignon blanc from a box during an evening fashion show and ceilidh at Lockerbie Manor, where the school party was staying.

The teacher agreed she had then "used inappropriate language, including swearing; told a male pupil to, "put his body away as it was too sexy"; pulled herself up from the floor by holding onto a pupil's ankles; touched a male pupil's chest and stated, "it was better than her husband's"; and held her breasts and made comments about them".

Ms Rew, a former depute of Morgan Academy in Dundee also "entered pupils' bedrooms, ate crisps and sweets and thereafter reached into her top to take crisps from between her breasts," the hearing heard.

The hearing was told Ms Rew had a "long and exemplary record" as a teacher, and had changed her life around since the incident in Lockerbie.

She has also undergone therapy and alcohol counselling since the event, the panel heard.

Ms Rew was placed on a Conditional Registration Order for two years, allowing her to remain on the teaching register, under conditions including submitting blood samples for testing every six months.