Drink-drive teacher ‘deserves our support’

Saturday 19th April 2008, 9:30AM BST.

TEACHER Moira Murphy deserves the support of her school and the community on her release from prison for drink-driving, according to PTA committee member Jon Bisson.

He said the La Mare de Carteret Primary School teacher was an asset the school could not afford to lose.

The mother of John Murphy, who sustained serious injuries when he was dragged along Fort Road by a car in November, was on Thursday jailed for four weeks for being more than three times the drink-drive limit when she was stopped on 9 February by police for driving erratically.

But Mr Bisson said it would be a terrible mistake if the school dismissed her as a result of what she had done when it followed what had happened to her son and shortly after her fiance had been diagnosed with cancer.