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Teacher is struck off following axe attack

AN ALCOHOLIC teacher has been struck off after being convicted of smashing his girlfriend's front door in with an axe.

William McMenamy, 54, from Skye, was convicted of a breach of the peace charge at Dingwall Sheriff Court last August following the drunken attack.

McMenamy, who had just completed a term working as a supply English teacher at Portree High School, Skye, at the time of the attack, was later sectioned for two months by the court as an alternative to a jail term.

Yesterday, a General Teaching Council sub-committee decided the severity of his conviction brought the teaching profession into disrepute and struck his name from the teaching register for at least 12 months.

The hearing also heard McMenamy was arrested three weeks ago on a drink-drive charge.

He allegedly drove a car, without a driving licence, to his local hospital late at night to seek medical help for his condition.

Staff at the hospital refused McMenamy treatment because he was drunk and called police.

He is due to appear on charges relating to that incident in August.


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