‘I WILL PUNCH YOUR TEETH DOWN YOUR THROAT’
WOMAN FINED AND GIVEN RESTRAINING ORDER
A FURIOUS mother threatened to punch a teacher and break his legs after he gave her child detention, writes Tom Mack.
She telephoned the school and said to the teacher: “Why do you keep bullying my daughter?” When he tried to respond, she threatened to “punch his teeth down his throat” if he spoke to her daughter “in that way” again.
A FURIOUS mother threatened to punch a teacher and break his legs after he gave her daughter detention.
The woman telephoned Samworth Academy in Eyres Monsell, Leicester, after her daughter was punished for her bad behaviour on November 19.
She said to the teacher: “Why do you keep bullying my daughter?”
The teacher then tried to respond, but the woman said if he spoke to her daughter in that way again she would “punch his teeth down his throat”.
The teacher hung up on her but she called back and spoke to the school receptionist, demanding to speak to the teacher again. She said: “He’s hung up on me.
“I’m going to come down that school and kick his teeth out. I’ll break his legs.”
At Leicester Magistrates’ Court, she pleaded guilty to making a communication conveying a threatening message.
Prosecutor Sukhy Basi said: “During the course of a police interview, she said her daughter came home
I’m going to come down that school and kick his teeth out. I’ll break his legs
What woman said on phone
from school angry after receiving detention. “(The defendant) did admit she made physical threats in order to scare the teacher.
“The teacher has asked for a restraining order.”
Helen Morris, representing the woman, who the Mercury has chosen not to name to protect the identity of her child, told the court her client had not taken her medication on that day.
She said: “She accepted she had said those words and the offence was made to scare the teacher but she had no intention of carrying it out.
“She has been diagnosed with a personality disorder and takes mood stabilisers.
“She has admitted she has a tendency to fly off the handle and that’s perhaps why she’s reacted in the over-the-top way she did.
“She doesn’t believe she had taken her medication that day.”
Ms Morris said the teenage daughter believed she had been punished twice for the same misbehaviour and that there was a “communication breakdown”.
The chair of the bench, Elizabeth Needham, told the woman: “It was the heat of the moment, however, people in schools are there to work with you. It’s a great responsibility educating the young and they need the support of the people at home.
“We’re going to ask you to pay compensation to the person you abused.”
The woman was ordered to pay £100 compensation to the teacher along with a £50 fine.
She was also given a 12-month restraining order preventing her from contacting the teacher or going to the school without being invited.