"The Irish former teacher will spend Christmas Day behind bars after he was jailed in November for contempt of court. Burke was sent back to jail two weeks ago for disobeying a court order not to enter Wilson's Hospital School in County Westmeath for at least three years after routine attempts to trespass on school grounds. In 2022, Burke was suspended and subsequently fired from a teaching position at the school for aggressively confronting the head teacher,"
"In November, he described Burke and his family's refusal to abide by court rulings a "deliberate, sustained, and concerted attack" on the authority of civil courts and the rule of law. He further accused the infamous anti-LGBTQ+ family of engaging in a "fanatical campaign" against both the court and the school. The Burke family are notorious in Ireland for their anti-LGBTQ+ activism, predicated on their hardline religious beliefs. The family have been compared to fundamentalist Christian anti-gay activists the Westboro Baptist Church."
Enoch Burke, a former teacher, will spend Christmas in jail after the High Court refused to release him. He was jailed in November for contempt of court and returned to custody two weeks ago for breaching a court order that barred him from entering Wilson's Hospital School. The breach followed routine attempts to trespass on school grounds. Burke was suspended and later dismissed in 2022 after confronting the head teacher over refusing to use a 17-year-old trans student's preferred name and pronouns. He has been repeatedly arrested over the last two years for returning to the school. Judges described the family's conduct as a deliberate attack on the rule of law.
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