A Christchurch teacher with over 20 years of martial arts experience has been censured by the Teaching Council after being convicted of injuring a man during a 2022 bar incident, where he punched the victim 16 times and caused an eye injury that left him unable to work.
Despite claiming he acted out of fear after being grabbed during an earlier altercation, a judge found the force used was excessive and unwarranted, sentencing him to community detention, supervision, and reparation. The teacher was working a second job at the bar at the time of the incident.
The Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal opted not to cancel his registration, citing his subsequent rehabilitation efforts, but imposed censure, conditions on his practising certificate, and a three-year annotation on the teaching register.
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‘where he punched the victim 16 times’. Dickhead was not disciplined in martial arts or disciplined at all, he was looking for trouble.
Why did the guy stick around to get hit 16 times, why did he grab the guy? I think both sides need to take a good hard look at themselves.