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NEWPORT, Wales — A teaching assistant has been struck from classroom registers for two years after informing Year 8 pupils he had eliminated more than 250 human beings as a United States Marine Corps sniper, a claim investigators found difficult to verify given that Mr. Scott John Trigg-Turner, 44, is both British and a wheelchair user.
NOT Scott John Trigg-Turner, seeing that he was NOT a sniper. (kaninstudio/depositphotos)
The Education Workforce Council Wales heard testimony that Mr. Trigg-Turner had also presented himself to students as a lord, an MBE recipient, and a veteran of Northern Ireland’s Troubles despite being approximately seven years old when the Good Friday Agreement was signed.
Fellow learning support assistant Sharon Davies testified she became suspicious after Mr. Trigg-Turner boasted to pupils about “killing in excess of 250 people,” a figure she found statistically improbable for someone whose military service appeared to consist entirely of playing wheelchair rugby for the Wigan Warriors. The panel was told Mr. Trigg-Turner still owned a firearm, though he later denied this claim during the school’s investigation, along with having made the claim about owning a firearm.
Mr. Trigg-Turner maintained he had been “diligent in transparency” and that his words were “misinterpreted,” a defense that did not address why students would misinterpret “I killed 250 people” as anything other than “I killed 250 people.” In an email to investigators, he wrote that he felt “targeted and singled out,” presumably by the same covert enemies who targeted his 250 imaginary victims.
The hearing was also told that Mr. Trigg-Turner arrived late to classes without explanation and provided inconsistent accounts of how he came to require a wheelchair, stories that somehow did not include “Marine sniper combat injury,” though one assumes this would have been the natural go-to narrative. He was not present at the disciplinary hearing, was not represented by counsel, and made no formal response to allegations, maintaining the tactical silence one would expect from a decorated special operations veteran or someone who never actually was one.
Panel chair Helen Beard-Robbins ruled there was “evidence of deep-seated attitudinal problems,” a clinical phrase meaning Mr. Trigg-Turner had repeatedly informed minors he was a government-authorized mass murderer and expected them to respect his authority as a result.
Mr. Trigg-Turner, who departed Bassaleg School to work at Cardiff and Vale College before being struck from the register, may not apply for reinstatement for two years. He has 28 days to appeal the decision to the High Court, though it remains unclear whether he will attend that hearing or send word via encrypted military channels that his movements remain classified.
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