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Teaching Assistant Told Newport Pupils He Had Killed 250 People as a Sniper
Scott John Trigg-Turner was struck off for making sustained false sniper and military claims to pupils, with a two-year bar on reinstatement imposed by the Education Workforce Council Wales.
- Education Workforce Council Wales professional standards panel announced on December 9 that Scott John Trigg-Turner's false military claims to Year 8 pupils amounted to unacceptable professional conduct, striking him off and barring reapplication for two years.
- Following an internal probe that led to his resignation, colleagues reported in 2023 that Trigg-Turner boasted to pupils about killing 'in excess of 250 people,' prompting the hearing .
- Witnesses described specific boasts including Trigg-Turner telling a Year 8 class he served in the US marines, used the codename 'Kill Switch', and claimed to own a gun, with claims of being a lord and MBE, which the panel found not proved.
- The panel removed him from the register for schools and FE colleges, striking him off indefinitely with a two-year bar on reapplication and a right to appeal to the High Court within 28 days.
- Panel chair Helen Beard-Robbins said the lies were 'sustained and deliberate' and criticised Bassaleg School for not acting sooner, while Trigg-Turner denied wrongdoing, saying remarks were 'misinterpreted' and was absent from the five-day EWC hearing.
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