who allegedly assaulted a teacher, overturned.

And the appeal could be heard in the Supreme Court as early as Monday morning, The Royal Gazette has learned.

The students -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- were charged in Juvenile Court after former Warwick Secondary teacher Victor Coggin required hospital treatment for serious injuries to his face. The students, 15 and 13, denied that they together unlawfully assaulted the teacher and did him bodily harm on March 4 in Warwick.

During the trial this summer, Mr. Coggin testified that he was on lunch duty at the school's main gate on March 4 when he encountered the older student, who was suspended, and warned him not to enter the property.

"I asked him to leave but he began to circle me,'' the Barbadian teacher said.

He added the student rode his bike straight at him. He needed hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.

Victoria Pearman, who represented the older student, argued that the prosecution had not produced "one shred of evidence'' proving that her client was responsible for the teacher's injuries.

And while acknowledging that an assault had taken place, Magistrate Cheryl-Ann Mapp ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove that the two students were acting together as charged.

However, yesterday the older teen admitted to a separate incident of unlawfully assaulting the same teacher on January 3 in Warwick and doing him bodily harm.

Mrs. Mapp sentenced him to two years of probation.

The boy, who was expelled from the public school system, was also ordered to return to Juvenile Court on January 26 for a trial for allegedly assaulting two Police officers in Warwick on April 1 and violently resisting arrest on the same day.

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