Caned 18-year-old schoolboy runs to court

An 18-year-old schoolboy tried to take his teacher to court after he gave him three strokes of the cane across the backside.

CANED PUPIL’S

SUMMONS

APPLICATION

REJECTED

An 18-year-old pupil at The Oratory School, Henley, applied for a summons of assault against one of his teachers at Henley Magistrates’ Court. He alleged that the teacher gave him three strokes with a cane.

The application – which was refused – was heard by the magistrates in a private room. Press and public were not present.

The schoolboy, Gerald Tyrrel, applied for the summons under section 42 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.

He alleged that the teacher hit him on the buttocks three times. But the magistrates decided there was nothing abnormal, brutal or unusual in the caning, and refused the application.

They told the boy that as he was under 21 he should consult with his parents and seek legal advice.

As published in Reading Evening Post, 22 November 1966.

Picture credit: Brett Stevens.

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