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Randles visited the school, complaining to the headteacher, Brother Damien, who showed him the strap he used himself for punishment, which had coins stitched into it; Randles told Damien that he would seek to put an end to it. He collected statements from parents visiting his practice and sent them
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School in Abbey Road. Norman Murray, a 9-year-old who had injured his right wrist in a fall tried to write with his left and was struck several times by his teacher on the right wrist with a rubber hosepipe as a punishment for messy handwriting. His mother asked
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