Teacher banned from classroom for life after holding knife to colleague’s throat

A teacher who held a butter knife to a colleague’s throat and threatened to ‘slash’ her has been banned from ever entering a classroom again.

David Crawford worked at Fishburn Primary School, near Stockton, when he assaulted a female teacher with a knife on May 4, 2020.

Summarising the incident at a disciplinary hearing, presenting officer for the Teacher Regulation Agency (TRA) Adam Slack...