Express & Star

JAILED: Teachers who beat pupil, 10, so brutally he lost hair with worry

Islamic school teachers who beat a 10-year-old pupil so brutally he started losing his hair with worry have each been jailed for a year.

Published

Mohammed Siddique, aged 60, and his 24-year-old son Mohammed Waqar were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court today after admitting wilful cruelty to the boy during lessons.

Judge Mark Wall QC told the pair he had considered suspending the jail term but "it would not be right to do so", adding a message must be sent that such "brutality" could not be tolerated.

He said: "This is not a case where you each overreacted only once to provocation, neither is it a case in which you misunderstood what constitutes proper punishment and therefore requires some guidance from probation services as to where that boundary lies.

"Added to that, there must be no mistake about the message taken from this case.

"Acts of brutality of this sort which you each indulged in, with a stick, will not be tolerated."

Their victim was beaten with a plastic stick and given back-handed slaps by each of his tutors for "talking in the classroom" or not doing his work at Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia Mosque, in Anderton Road, Birmingham.

The assaults happened on four separate occasions.

Sorry, we are not accepting comments on this article.