Daily Mirror

Kids kept on own for days

- BY MARTIN FRICKER

MORE than 200 children spent at least five days in a row in school isolation booths in England last year, a probe found.

And one child claimed to have spent three months sitting on his own.

The booths are designed to remove problem kids from classes temporaril­y.

Paul Dix, a behaviour consultant, said one school had 50 children all in isolation at one time.

He told the BBC: “That is not education – it is a custodial sentence.” A VILE mum who named her baby son after Adolf Hitler grew up as a Nazi-obsessed teen after being “born racist”, a former friend said.

Claudia Patatas and her toyboy lover Adam Thomas face lengthy jail terms after being convicted of far-right terrorism yesterday.

The neo-Nazis held hands and sobbed in the dock at Birmingham crown court as they were found guilty.

The pair were members of the notorious undergroun­d National Action group – branded a terrorist organisati­on by the government in 2016.

The cell was smashed after member Alexander Deakin was arrested for plastering Aston University in the city with National Action stickers.

Detectives seized his phone and accessed a private chat group on the messenger app Telegram, used by NA members including Patatas, 38, and Thomas, 22. It sparked a major counterter­ror probe and a string of arrests. When police raided their home in Banbury, Oxon, they found pictures of them with their son, whose middle name is “Adolf ”, in front of Nazi regalia. The images were no surprise to the Portuguese photograph­er’s pals in her home city of Lisbon. Even at school she spoke of her hatred for other races, they revealed. A former friend said: “When we were together Claudia said horrible things about other races. It was sad, she didn’t seem to know any different. She did not think there was anything wrong with using words like n ***** and c**n. I think she was born racist.

“In her late teens she started wearing strange, old-fashioned clothes. She said it was what Nazi women wore in the 30s.” In the Telegram messages, Patatas TRIAL Patatas hides yesterday

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