Judges release pellet gun teacher

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><!-- S BO --><!-- S IIMA --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=203 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD> Linda Walker said the youths had terrorised her family

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA -->Teacher Linda Walker, who was jailed for firing a pellet gun during a row with youths, has been freed by the Court of Appeal.

Three judges gave her a conditional discharge but refused her permission to challenge her convictions.

The 48-year-old, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, was jailed for six months after she was convicted of affray and possessing a firearm on 29 March.

She said she fired the gun after the youths had terrorised her family.

Her trial was told she had received nuisance phone calls abusing her family, her garden shed had been broken into, and a car and her garden had been vandalised.

Fresh evidence

But no evidence was produced that any of the youths she confronted was involved in the vandalism.

Walker had sought to use fresh evidence from a milkman, David Matthews, that one of the youths had been seen on her property in Hollyhouse Drive.

But the judges said the evidence did not relate to what happened on the day she confronted the youths.

She now faces uncertainty over her job as a special needs teacher. A spokesman for Salford City Council said: "Linda Walker was suspended from her teaching post pending this police investigation and court action. "Now legal proceedings are ended, this formal disciplinary action can also be concluded. This will be completed as quickly as possible."<!-- E BO -->


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/4510533.stm

[ABCMan]

well good that shes been released, bad that she cant use evidence from a 3rd party as to why she acted in desperation

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well good that shes been released, bad that she cant use evidence from a 3rd party as to why she acted in desperation

Surely dangerous gun toting teacher who is unable to keep her temper should serve more than the couple of weeks she ahs served - Hopefully she will lose her job - I mean would you want a mentally unstable convicted violent thug teaching your kids.

Sad that the judiciary bows to the tabloids.

[ABCMan]

err what about the thugs that were terrorising her?

how would these thugs learn anything except how to break into your house and destroy your life if there were no teachers to teach them?

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err what about the thugs that were terrorising her?

how would these thugs learn anything except how to break into your house and destroy your life if there were no teachers to teach them?

Err - she stands in front of a class they provoke her and she gets out an AK47 and sorts the problem out and thats acceptable - FFS where does this logic end ?

Discharging a firearm in the street - no excuses - lock the violent criminal up and throw away the key. The fact she's a teacher can't be used in mitigation it makes it worse - much worse

[4me2]

Err - she stands in front of a class they provoke her and she gets out an AK47 and sorts the problem out and thats acceptable - FFS where does this logic end ?

Discharging a firearm in the street - no excuses - lock the violent criminal up and throw away the key. The fact she's a teacher can't be used in mitigation it makes it worse - much worse

Dont you think you might be blowing things out of all proportion here ?:nowords:

Calm down dear its only a commercial.

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Calm down dear its only a commercial.

Thank you Mr Winner