Teacher tastes own medicine
NZPA-AP Doncaster ■A man had shoved a bar of soap into a teacher’s mouth after she had done the same thing to his six-year-old son, a court was told yesterday. Norman Time, aged 45, pleaded guilty in Doncaster Magistrates’ Court, in northern England, to unlawfully assaulting the teacher, Elsie Sherratt, with a bar of soap.
The Court allowed him to go free without a fine, provided he stayed out of trouble for two years. The prosecutor, Fred Curtis, said Mrs Sherratt .had ordered Time’s son, Tony, to bite a bar of soap last October as punishment after a spitting incident with another child. Time said he had then spent four months trying to take official action against the teacher. He decided to retaliate when his son came home from school with wet trousers after saying Mrs Sherratt had refused him permission to go to the toilet. Counsel, Tom Cranfield, said, “He quite literally did give her a taste of the medicine she had given the little boy.” '
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Press, 16 July 1986, Page 10
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