Teacher Sent Back to Prison for Failure to Comply with Court Order

A High Court judge has again sent teacher Enoch Burke back to Mountjoy Prison where he has spent over 300 days over his failure to comply with an order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath. During what was at times a heated hearing Mr Justice Mark Sanfey had offered to temporarily release Mr Burke from prison, in the hope that the teacher would use the time the school was on holidays to reflect on his position.

However Mr Burke refused to address the court's proposal, and accused the judge of not doing his duty by ruling in what the teacher said was a lie told to the court by a solicitor acting for the school in a sworn statement to the cour

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