Head fined £20,000 over student's skylight plunge
A headteacher has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £22,000 in costs for failing to take reasonable care for the safety of his students after a pupil fell through a skylight.
John Summerfield took the group of "slightly inebriated" sixth-formers on to the roof of Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, Merseyside, when Joel Murray, then 18, tumbled eight feet into a corridor and fractured his skull.
The teenager also broke his ribs, perforated an eardrum and suffered permanent damage to his eye, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
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