Friday - March 19, 2010

Muzzies holler RACE! Judges says up yours and awards 400,000 to the victim. That a first?

Looks like this one time the one representing civilization worth saving wins one. Hope she gets every dime and has fun with the money and flaunts it at the spineless council. 

Headmistress wrongly accused of racism by Muslim governors wins £400,000 payout

By Daily Mail Reporter

A headmistress hounded out of her job after being falsely accused of racism by two Muslim governors is entitled to £400,000 damages, the Court of Appeal ruled today.

Erica Connor, 57, had run a ‘happy and successful’ primary school but was driven to a breakdown by the allegations.

She left the New Monument primary school in Woking, Surrey, after Paul Martin - a Muslim convert - and Mumtaz Saleem began monopolising meetings with the aim of turning New Monument in Woking into an Islamic faith school.

The Surrey town is home to the first purpose-built mosque in the country - the Shah Jahan Mosque - which dates from 1889.

A deputy High Court judge ruled in March last year that Surrey County Council had failed in its duty to protect her and to intervene when the actions of the governors created problems. He awarded her £407,700 damages.

Martin started making allegations about anti-Muslim comments by members of staff which led to an investigation by Mrs Connor.

She found that all the staff denied the allegations which she said had demoralised them.

An official review also found no evidence of deliberate racism or religious bias but said the governing body had become dysfunctional.

The High Court had been told Martin tried to stir up disaffection in the community against the school and Mr Saleem was verbally abusive in school meetings.

Although during the first five years that Mrs Connor was in charge of the school there had been good relations with the local Muslim community and improved results, the situation changed when the two men were elected as governors.

Judge John Leighton Williams ruled in the High Court that the men had an agenda to increase the role of the Muslim religion in the school and that this, combined with the authority’s failure to protect Mrs Connor, had led her to suffer serious depression.
Paul Martin: Primary school Govenor

Paul Martin: Primary school Govenor

When Martin was removed from the board of governors in June 2005, he wrote a letter of complaint saying it was because he had been raising complaints of institutional racism within the school.

A few days later a petition was circulated calling for Mrs Connor’s removal from the school and containing “defamatory and offensive remarks”, the appeal judges were told.

Lord Justice Laws said the High Court judge was right to find there had been negligence on the part of the council.

He said it was an unusual case - “partly because of the council’s lamentable capitulation to aggression”.

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the council’s lamentable capitulation to aggression

Kinda says it all, doesn’t it? That’s how they operate and that’s how they get away with things. Like the travelers. About the same thing.

Posted by peiper     on 03/19/2010 at 01:11 PM   
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