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School CP – February 1956
Daily Mirror, London, 2 February 1956He caned a boy — now wins appeal
“He was acting properly and within his authority,” Judge H.A. Tucker, chairman of Staffordshire Quarter Sessions Appeal Committee, said of Roy Barber, of Fields-road, Alsager, a teacher at a secondary modern school at Kidsgrove. Barber was fined £2 with three guineas costs at Burslem in December for assaulting Sydney Houghton after Houghton had cut the bench with a chisel he was using in a woodwork class. |
A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD woodwork teacher did not use excessive force when caning a twelve-year-old boy, an appeal committee decided yesterday. His appeal against a conviction for assault was allowed with costs.
