A female teacher in Britian has been sacked for allegedly letting underage students of a boarding school get drunk on a supervised trip to an Indian restaurant.
Deana Hall, 53, claims she was made a scapegoat, and was unfairly dismissed from her job following the incident in Lancashire, north-west England.
The students and three staff members from Moorland High School in the town of Clitheroe drank wine, lager and spirits as they enjoyed Indian food at Balti Stan restaurant at Clayton-le-Moors.
"She still can't accept that she did anything wrong and I think it's appalling," head teacher Jonathan Harrison said in evidence during an employment tribunal hearing this week.
"She brought the school into disrepute. She was in breach of the trust of the school and the parents and her conduct could have led to a serious injury to a student who, under the influence of alcohol, could have wandered out of the restaurant and into the path of a car which could have closed the school down.
"I find it impossible that she has not accepted any wrong doing."
The hearing was shown a series of pictures allegedly showing students with alcohol and heard that one boy drank a glass of wine and three pints of lager, and that he bought a Jack Daniels with Coke for another student.
Hall said it was the responsibility of her superior, boarding house manager, Deborah Richards, to secure the correct permissions.
Following the incident on May 16, 2014, Richards resigned her position and told the head teacher that she accepted full responsibility.
"Mrs Richards rang me up afterwards and told me that she felt awful that we were going to lose our jobs because she had not done her job correctly," Hall told the tribunal in her claim of "unfair dismissal".
"No student was drunk at all and we made sure of that at the end of the night.
"I would not have permitted alcohol at all if I had organised the trip but my boss said that it was ok and I had no reason not to trust her," she said.
The judgement in the case has been reserved by Judge Rebecca Howard and is expected to be given in the next four weeks.
