Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, arrived back in Britain today and declared: “I never imagined this would happen. I am just an ordinary primary school teacher.”

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed, arrived back in Britain today after receiving a presidential pardon.

The British teacher facing 40 lashes for naming a teddy bear Mohammed was reported to police by an office worker at her Sudan school, it emerged today.