L’assistente didattico ha detto agli alunni di Newport di aver ucciso 250 persone come cecchino

I didn’t know you could get banned for something like this. Is it because of stolen valor or something similar?

>A Wales rugby player and teaching assistant has been banned from classrooms for two years after telling pupils he had killed more than 250 people as a military sniper.

>Scott John Trigg-Turner, 44, made bogus claims to a Year 8 class in Newport that he had been in the US marines, went by the codename ‘Kill Switch’ and still owned a gun.

>A professional standards hearing in Cardiff was told wheelchair user Mr Trigg-Turner also claimed to be a lord, the recipient of an MBE and to have served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles – despite being too young to have done so.

>Mr Trigg-Turner denied being unprofessional and had told investigators his words were “misinterpreted”.

>Fellow learning support assistant Sharon Davies said she had become suspicious about Mr Trigg-Turner after hearing the stories he told pupils at Bassaleg School in 2023, including boasts about killing “in excess of 250 people”.

Well, that was quite a wild ride!

I do like the idea that a Lord, who had served during the Troubles, got an MBE for something, and had also worked with the US Marines would end up as a teaching assistant. You’d think that someone with that pedigree would have ended up doing something more exciting, like being [a lion tamer](https://media.tenor.com/OZ8aEy6iFa8AAAAe/monty-python-lion-tamer.png) or being the first man on Mars.

>The EWC panel was also told he arrived late and left class early without agreement a number of times and gave inconsistent explanations to colleagues about how he came to be a wheelchair user.

Pretty sure the sniper stuff was just icing on the cake.

I really struggle to marry the punishment with the crime here. Sounds like he’s just a gobshite rather than some bad guy.

The thing is, playing wheelchair rugby for Wales is already quite impressive, why not just brag about that?

The PE teacher at my school said that he’d been combat trainer in the Royal Marines. And it was true. Fortunately, he was a nice guy. Unless you, like me, couldn’t climb ropes.

I had a teacher who would make up stuff too, like claiming he scooped out his own grandmother’s eyeball with a potato peeler. Just wacky stuff every week. One kid he had banter with came in with a broken leg one day and he ripped into him every day until his cast was off.

Somehow got promoted to head of department.

When I waiting to collect some kids from a paintball party, one of the people who worked there told me that he had just returned from America where he had been invited to attend an FBI anti terrorism driving course. He told me that the final thing to do to pass the course was to execute a pit manoeuvre on a public highway. He was just working at the paintball while he was applying to be a security driver and body guard. Probably to someone in the royal family. He’s probably thwarted a number of assassination attempts on the king by now.