Headmaster faces charges after pupil deaths

Title

Headmaster faces charges after pupil deaths

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

19 Jul 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:11

Description

Report on the inquest (and death by misadventure verdict) after students from Stoke Poges Middle School were drowned on a school visit to Land’s End in Cornwall. Also on the possible dismissal of headmaster Alec Askew, who was in charge of the students at the time of the accident. With comment from Alec Askew; David Smith, Divisional Education Chief. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

David Smith; Alec Askew

Keywords

Deaths; Teachers; Schools; Cornwall; Inquests; Dismissal from employment; Schoolchildren; Drowning; Employee discipline; Verdicts; Stoke Poges Middle School; Middle schools; Land’s End; Alec Askew

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