Teacher gets 12 months over pupil’s drowning

A TEACHER was jailed for 12 months yesterday for the manslaughter of a 10-year-old boy who drowned while on a school trip.

Teacher gets 12 months over pupil’s drowning

Paul Ellis, 42, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Max Palmer on May 26 last year at Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court yesterday.

Max was swept to his death in a river with a party of pupils from Fleetwood High School, Lancashire, where his mother Patricia, who was also on the trip, was an educational assistant.

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