Teacher beats colleague outside staff meeting

A teacher at a Corporate Area high school has decided to leave his job, claiming that he now suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, following a physical altercation with a colleague on the compound earlier this month.

The revelation was shared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday, when the teacher, who is a complainant against Anthony Mulgrave, declined to attend mediation.

"I haven't been back to work from the incident. I keep having flashbacks of the incident," the complainant told Senior Parish Judge Sanchia Burrell.

It was shared that on April 8, there was a staff meeting at the institution where both men are employed as teachers. During the meeting, the complainant saw Mulgrave having another discussion and tapped him on the shoulder to stop disturbing the meeting. Mulgrave asked the complainant to apologise for the tap, but the complainant went outside, where Mulgrave followed him and used a two by four board to hit him all over his body, arm and legs. During the melee, the complainant used his hand to shield himself from being hit in the head, causing damage to his smartwatch.

Mulgrave pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and malicious destruction of property.

"He tapped me on the shoulder with a piece of wood strip and told me to shut up. I told him to apologise and he said no," Mulgrave explained.

Burrell requested a social-enquiry report to assist with sentencing and made Mulgrave the subject of a fingerprint order. The matter was adjourned until June 26, when Mulgrave is expected to be sentenced.