Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A teacher who head butted a teenage boy outside his home has been ordered by a court to pay his victim £900 in compensation.
Craig Embrey, 31, lost his job over the incident after he split the lower lip of the 16-year-old boy, who attends a specialist school.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Embrey, who lives in Warrington, told the boy and his friend to 'f*** off' after they were said to be singing loudly outside his house. Read more: Bar worker hands in notice - and get abusive message from a manager Then fearing he was about to be struck, he assaulted one of them, the court heard.
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