Boy, 5, lops off his own BoJo barnet
Steele’s bid to halt police force disciplinary rap
A MUM was left in hysterics when her son cut his hair with a pair of kids’ scissors after he decided he looked too much like Boris Johnson.
Melanie Henry, 32, left five-year-old Angus to play while she took a work call and returned to find he’d chopped his blond locks.
Teacher Melanie has been working from home as well as keeping an eye on Angus and his siblings, Struan, nine, and Piper, four.
After friends and family pointed out Angus’s resemblance to the Prime Minister during the first lockdown, this time the schoolboy decided to take matters into his own hands.
She said: “I just asked him what had happened and he said he did it because I’d said that the salons were shut and he didn’t want to wait for a haircut.
“I was just so shocked at what he’d done, he’d used a pair of the primary school scissors.
“Because of how his hair looked last lockdown, he just didn’t want people saying he looked like Boris Johnson again. We did see the funny side of it.”
Melanie, from Dumfriesshire, tried to salvage the situation by shaving off the rest of Angus’s hair and luckily the tot loves his new hairdo.
She said: “It has been months since they’ve had a haircut – we’ve been waiting for the salons to reopen.
“The salon we usually go to thought his Boris haircut was hilarious.”
A SCOTTISH Police Federation boss has launched a legal fight against disciplinary action over tweets about the Sheku Bayoh case. General secretary Calum Steele is understood to have made comments on a social media thread in November 2019 about the dad’s death in Kirkcaldy.
They are alleged to have been accompanied by a “flippant” GIF.
Police chiefs believe the tweets were inappropriate and began misconduct proceedings against him. But Steele has instructed lawyers to raise a judicial review on his behalf.
He maintains officers are entitled to freedom of speech.
Steele believes Police Scotland has acted unlawfully and is seeking an order to halt the disciplinary case.
Yesterday at the Court of Session, Lord Fairley set a two-day hearing for April.
Sheku died in May 2015 while being restrained by police in the street. A public inquiry into his death will not hear evidence from officers until next year. Steele was previously found guilty by the police force’s Professional Standards department of “inappropriate and offensive’ comments on Twitter about former assistant chief constable Angela Wilson.