Mark Walker - sacked at last?A judgement against former Sunnydale Community College teacher Mark Walker was issued by an employment tribunal last month. Mr Walker, 39, was suspended from the school, in Shildon, County Durham, in March 2007, and claimed he was the subject of a political witch hunt. Twenty months later, he was officially sacked over his sickness record and took the school’s governing body to an employment tribunal.
The Newcastle tribunal, which was met in January, unanimously dismissed Mr Walker’s case, but has not yet published its reasons. Patrick Harrington, a spokesman for Mr Walker’s union, Solidarity, said there could be further action against his employers, Durham County Council. Mr Harrington said he would be studying the tribunal’s reasons with a view to a potential appeal, but an appeal was not the only option.
He said: “What we would point out is that Mr Walker’s ill health was largely contributed to by the employer and, in particular, the way they handled the disciplinary process. There may be a personal injury claim for the stress caused.”
Mr Harrington also cited an NSPCC report about Mr Walker, who is from Rievaulx, Spennymoor, County Durham, that was leaked to The Northern Echo. The report reveals the disciplinary inquiry uncovered a large number of emails indicating a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old former pupil. It makes it clear that no illegal content was found on Mr Walker’s school laptop or desktop computers.
It concludes: “There is sufficient evidence from the emails, and from previous matters concerning his professional conduct, to conclude that Mr Walker’s behaviour has resulted in his conduct being less than one would expect of a teacher placed in a position of trust.”
Mr Harrington said: “This report was very damaging to Mr Walker and there is a duty of confidentiality and a question of damages for the breach. The report was in the hands of the county council and the NSPCC and has to have been leaked by staff.”
Durham County Council declined to comment because of legal reasons.
* A tribunal into the case of Mr Walker’s brother, Adam Walker, also a BNP activist, has been adjourned until the end of May. The General Teaching Council, in Birmingham, is considering allegations he posted inappropriate comments on the internet. The former teacher at Houghton Kepier School, in Houghton-le-Spring, Wearside, was suspended in 2007.
The Northern Echo
10 comments:
Being off sick for ages didn't stop Walker carrying on with his karate, nor did it stop him being a very active BNP activist. In fact, didn't he stand in a by-election while he was supposedly sick?
Harrington's on the case? Oh my word, what a larf!!
He makes Lee Barnes look like Perry Mason!
Having a 'sexual relationship' with a pupil (if they're under 18) is illegal (see s16 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003).
Under a BNP regime Walker could look forward to an appointment with the hangman.
gtm
"Harrington: “What we would point out is that Mr Walker’s ill health was largely contributed to by the employer and, in particular, the way they handled the disciplinary process. There may be a personal injury claim for the stress caused."
Stress!...Stress!... I don't think much of the new breed of "Aryan Warriors". What sort of 'Nationalist' suffers from 'stress'? Imagine what the guys in Stalingrad '43 and Berlin '45 had to put up with fighting the "Red hoards"? I reckon these new guys will 'fold under questioning' when the sh*t really hits the fan!
"Harrington's on the case? Oh my word, what a larf!!"
Pat Harrington = Griffin's gimp!
The NSPCC will be relieved.
Not a good day for that dickhead Patrick Harrington or the utterly useless Solidarity, is it.
Harrington lost the case? Oh dear, members of the tribunal had better prepare themselves for a packet of shit in the post.
Being off sick for ages didn't stop Walker carrying on with his karate,
I think your getting confused with his brother
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
One Walker Brother down, another low-life scumbag to go. Let's wait until May when the other useless and disgusting retard, Adam Walker, gets the chop and nose-dives to oblivion.
Both of the Walker Brothers are utter scum and are clearly well-suited to running an equally useless and pathetic "trade union" called Solidarity (better known as "Squalidarity").
As for one Patrick Harrington, well, what more can one say that hasn't already be said?
The serial failure and has-been of fascist politics yet again fails to come up the goods after a heavy dosage of self-promotion.
This windbag so full of self-importance and self-justification is a virtual walking disaster-zone, predicated on his own extreme ego. If Harrington had a brain he would be dangerous.
Uttering wild and self-justified threats and threats of retribution seem to be the norm for this retard. The guy just ain't normal and does an extremely poor take of a "General Secretary" of a supposed "trade union".
Anti-fascists ought to be glad that the whole fascist movement is run by either incompetents, corrupted egotists or retards.
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