Teacher ‘could go to jail’

A TAYSIDE teacher with 20 years’ experience who frightened two pupils with additional needs in a prolonged classroom incident has been warned he could go to jail for the offence.

Phillippe Magalon repeatedly shouted at the six and seven-year-olds in an Angus primary school, banged his hands on a table and threw a book at a wall after telling the children he was “fed up” with their behaviour.

Shocked support staff said they had never witnessed a teacher acting like that before.

Sheriff Gregor Murray told the 57-year-old at Forfar Sheriff Court he had committed a “grave and significant breach of trust”.

Magalon, of West Bay, Gourdon, Aberdeenshire, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at the school on February 28 last year in a manner likely to cause fear or alarm to the children involved.

Sentence was deferred until October.

ABOUT 20 factory workers have been sent home after reportedly petting a dog belonging to someone who has tested positive for coronavirus.

The staff at Dover Fueling Solutions on West Pitkerro Industrial Estate were told to go home after one worker’s partner tested positive for Covid-19.

It is understood the worker, who was on annual leave at the time, met colleagues on their lunch break to show off their new puppy – but anyone who petted the dog has now been sent home and told to self-isolate.

It comes one day after the 2 Sisters poultry factory in Coupar Angus was shut due to an outbreak, with 10 employees confirmed as testing positive for the virus. One worker, who did not wish to be named, said: “Someone who is currently on holiday came to work with a new puppy.

“Everyone from the factory was out on their break clapping the puppy and not keeping a twometre distance from the person who brought the dog, it was crazy.