Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has told the High Court that he is not interested in what he called a 'Christmas gift' of being let out of Mountjoy Prison during the festive period.
Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has told the High Court that he is not interested in what he called a "Christmas gift" of being let out of Mountjoy Prison during the festive period.
Mr Burke has spent the last three and a half months behind bars over his continued failure to obey a court order to stay away and not try to teach at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath. Those submissions are to be made before the High Court next week, the judge said adding that this was something that had not contemplated when the matter was before him a few days earlier.However, Mr Burke told the judge that he did not want "a Christmas gift" from the court and repeated his claim that the order against him that have resulted in his imprisonment are "manifestly unlawful.
He said that he wants to leave prison with his position that the orders against him are wrong and are in breach of his rights to religious freedom are "wholly and totally vindicated".
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