Ex-PE teacher who hit children with golf balls ordered to do unpaid work
All the boys would start running from side to side and he would then start hitting balls at us."I thought, 'No way, this can't be happening'. The older boys said that it was normal, it happened all the time."He said there was a culture of "fear" at the school during his time there in 1990s."You could feel the tension... Their cooperation and assistance has been instrumental in ensuring this conviction."Council-run Kerelaw opened in 1970 and was run as a residential unit for boys before becoming co-educational.
- ▪All the boys would start running from side to side and he would then start hitting balls at us."I thought, 'No way, this can't be happening'.
- ▪The older boys said that it was normal, it happened all the time."He said there was a culture of "fear" at the school during his time there in 1990s."You could feel the tension...
- ▪Their cooperation and assistance has been instrumental in ensuring this conviction."Council-run Kerelaw opened in 1970 and was run as a residential unit for boys before becoming co-educational.
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Ex-PE teacher who hit children with golf balls ordered to do unpaid workImage caption, Michael Neil abused children at Kerelaw residential school in the 1990s and early 2000sByChris ClementsScotland social affairs correspondentPublished17 minutes agoA former PE teacher has been ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work for violent attacks on teenage pupils at a scandal-hit residential school in North Ayrshire.Michael Neil, 72, locked children in the gym hall and struck them with golf balls at the now-closed Kerelaw in Stevenston between 1991 and 2003.The ex-footballer, who played for Arbroath and Clyde, carried out so many attacks on pupils that a jury heard he could not even remember them.He is the latest former staff member to be convicted of offences at the school and will be…
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