Mohammed Waqar (left) and his father Mohammed Sidique admitted to wilful cruelty (Picture: PA)
Two teachers who beat a pupil so savagely that he began to lose his hair have each been jailed for a year.
Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 24, beat the 10-year-old during lessons at the Birmingham Islamic centre for his perceived lack of effort during religious lessons.
The pair admitted to wilful cruelty to the boy at Birmingham Crown Court today and were sentenced to a year each in prison. Judge Mark Wall QC said he considered a suspended sentence but felt he must show that such ‘brutality’ will not be tolerated.
Two teachers who beat a pupil so savagely that he began to lose his hair have each been jailed for a year.
Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his son Mohammed Waqar, 24, beat the 10-year-old during lessons at the Birmingham Islamic centre for his perceived lack of effort during religious lessons.
The pair admitted to wilful cruelty to the boy at Birmingham Crown Court today and were sentenced to a year each in prison. Judge Mark Wall QC said he considered a suspended sentence but felt he must show that such ‘brutality’ will not be tolerated.
‘This is not a case where you each overreacted only once to provocation, neither is it a case in which you misunderstood what constitutes proper punishment and therefore requires some guidance from probation services as to where that boundary lies,’ he said.
‘Added to that, there must be no mistake about the message taken from this case.’
Siddique and Waqar beat the boy with a plastic stick and slapped him with the back of the hand for ‘talking in the classroom’ a lack of effort at Sparkbrook Islamic centre, which is attached to the Jamia Mosque in Anderton Road.
The beatings happened on four separate occasions.
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