In his ruling, Mr Justice O'Moore said 'it was difficult to avoid the conclusion that Burke was exploiting his imprisonment for his own ends'.
THE HIGH COURT has ruled that jailed teacher Enoch Burke should be released from Mountjoy Prison.
In his ruling the judge said that the school could come back to court and seek Burke’s attachment and if he does not comply with the order to stay away from the school.The only threat to his continue freedom the judge said will arise again if he breaches any existing order of the court. It would explain why he resisted an early trial which could have seen him free now, or in the cusp of freedom, the judge said.
“The only plausible interpretation of Burke’s actions is that he sees some advantage in his continuing imprisonment, otherwise he would have either avoided his jailing or taken the opportunity to bring it to an end.” The Judge also said that “Burke’s views about transgender people” are much better known now than before he was sent to Mountjoy.Earlier this year the Judge said that he was an “ordinary History and German teacher in a Westmeath school”.
He again said that he has been jailed over his religious objections to transgendarism following the school’s request last May that he refer to a male student as a ‘they.’
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