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"A teacher who bludgeoned a disruptive pupil with a dumbbell walked free yesterday when a 'common sense' jury acquitted him in minutes.

Peter Harvey was cleared of trying to kill a 14-year-old boy who told him to '**** off'.

His trial heard how he was targeted by teenagers who knew he had been 
off work with depression and stress. 

The 'fundamentally decent' man snapped when the science class set out to upset him, with a girl  -  described as the pupils' ringleader  -  using a camcorder to film the incident so she could distribute it round the school. 

Mr Harvey dragged the boy  -  a persistent troublemaker  -  into a cupboard and hit him about the head with a 3kg dumbbell shouting 'die, die, die'.

The attack fractured the teenager's skull.

But yesterday a jury swiftly acquitted him of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

Judge Michael Stokes QC told the court 'common sense had prevailed'."

-- The Daily Mail