Boy battered by teacher with 3kg dumbbell was ‘leading’ trouble in class

A 14-YEAR-OLD schoolboy battered about the head with a dumbbell by his teacher was the “leading light” in trouble in his classroom, a court heard yesterday.

The boy had been in trouble for disrupting classes nine times before he was attacked by science teacher Peter Harvey at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the court was told. He suffered a fractured skull after the 50-year-old allegedly bludgeoned him with a 3kg dumbbell after his lesson descended into “uproar”.

Yesterday, Rex Tedd, defending, accused the boy of being a “leading light” behind trouble in the classroom on July 8 of last year.