Enoch Burke back in prison after refusing to abide by trespass order
Teacher Enoch Burke has been sent back to jail by the High Court after again refusing to abide by an order that he stop attending at the school he has been sacked from.
Mr Burke, who claims he is in jail for being against transgenderism according to his Christian religious beliefs that there is only the male and female sex, appeared before Mr Justice David Nolan on Friday.
Mr Burke has been in prison for more than 400 days over failing to obey an injunction directing him to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.
He was released in late June, without promising not to break the injunction, when the school summer holidays had begun.
But Rosemary Mallon BL, for the school, said in late August he started attending again on a number of days when he got into the school grounds and on one occasion managed to get into the building and a transition year staff meeting.
He was returned to prison in September by Mr Justice Michael Quinn after he again refuse to abide by the…
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