Caption: Jailed anti-trans teacher faces disciplinary hearing after ranting at judge
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An evangelical Christian teacher who was jailed for refusing court orders faces a disciplinary hearing after ‘verbally abusing a Judge’.
Enoch Burke launched into an outburst during his High Court appearance last week.
He was jailed in 2022 for breaching a High Court injunction ordering him to stay away from Wilson Hospital School in County Westmeath.
The teacher was suspended after he refused to refer to a pupil as their preferred pronoun.
He was placed on gardening leave pending a disciplinary process over his stance on trans issues but was imprisoned for refusing to abide by the court’s instruction.
Mr Justice Mark Sanfey was going to let Burke out of prison during the Easter period so he could reflect on the case – on the condition he not go to the school.
But Burke refused and began a long winded rant verbally attacking the court.
Enoch Burke launched into an outburst during his High Court appearance last week (Picture: PA)
Mr Justice Mark Sanfey ordered Burke to removed from his courtroom, with the warders trying to calm the devout Christian down.
He will appear before the Mountjoy Prison Governor Ray Murtagh.
A Mountjoy source said: ‘Enoch is now facing a full disciplinary hearing before the Governor. He will have the right to defend himself and give his side of the story.
‘If he is found guilty he will lose some of the prison privileges that he has been receiving such as how many phone calls he is allowed a day, how many visitors a week he can receive, how many books he can get from the library.
‘Privileges vary from prisoner to prisoner.
‘Enoch had been a model prisoner up until this incident and there was a lot of sympathy for him among the staff.’
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