My Teacher the Murderer
For my 3rd year in Junior school Mr Jackman was my Form Master. A short dumpy man with huge jowls and 3 chins that wobbled when he refereed football.

Jacko took great delight in metering out corporal punishment to boys by slippering them in front of the class with a gym shoe for trivial matters like talking in class, girls on the other hand were punished in private by a lady teacher. On one occasion Jacko whacked a lad with a football boot - this was in the days of old when footie boots really were boots!

Yes old Jackman was a bad tempered grouch at times.

Around fifteen years after I left school the headlines in the local paper read something like "Teacher strangles lover and hangs himself".

It turned out that after his marriage broke up, Mr Jackman set up house with Miss Smith another teacher at the same school. During a row he had strangled her and then climbed up into the loft, secured a rope to a beam and having placed a noose around his neck jumped through the access hatch.
( Vambo, Mon 2 Feb 2009, 12:01, Reply)