Teacher sacked and branded ‘Islamophobic’ after he was reported over a Facebook post criticising Lucy Connolly’s prison sentence says he has lost everything after the ‘witch hunt’

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Lord Young of Acton, founder of the Free Speech Union, told the Daily Mail he was ‘shocked’ by the decision to sack Mr Pearson.

He accused the National Education Union of ‘siding with the bosses rather than the workers when it comes to breaches of workplace speech codes’.

Aidan Radnedge, Daily Mail, 7th August 2025.