10-Year-Old Students Who Laced Teacher’s Coffee With Poison Only Gets Suspension

10-year-old students from Clapham Terrace Community Primary School in Leamington Spa, Warwick, UK were suspended after allegedly lacing a teacher’s coffee with a deadly, bleach-like chemical, the Sun reports.

According to sources, a small group of students from the primary school organized themselves as the “Mafia” and made a horrifying kill-list of six teachers in the school, including 39-year-old Emma Place. Two of the students were assigned to put a dose of poison inside Place’s tumbler. Those who witnessed the event told interviewers that the teacher was literally seconds away from sipping from her coffee tumbler when she was stopped by a student, who allegedly saw what happened to her coffee.

Upon opening the coffee flask, the toxic smell of poison emerged, overwhelming those in the nearby vicinity.

Police officers were called into the school to investigate the incident. There, they discovered that the student “mafia” was behind the horrific attack. Two students have been suspended from classes so far, despite some people’s clamor for a harsher punishment for the culprits of the coffee poisoning incident.

The age of criminal responsibility in England is 10. However, it is reported that the students won’t face any type of prosecution.

Philip Robbins, chair of the school’s board of governors, told the press that neither the school nor the teacher plans to press charges against the students involved in the poisoning.

A Warwickshire police officer added that the incident was an isolated event and the school is internally dealing with the situation.

According to the New York Daily News, the incident came 24 hours after another teacher from a different school, Anne Maguire, was stabbed to death by a student, months before she was set to officially retire.

Netizens didn’t seem to like the lenient punishment for the two students. Many who observed the incident felt that charges were needed to be filed against the students involved in poisoning Place’s coffee.

In a recent report by the Inquisitr, a similar event happened in China where a colleague was caught on camera peeing inside the tea containers of two kindergarten teachers. The teachers grew suspicious when their container started emitting a bizarre odor and started to investigate, only to find out the horrifying cause of their bad batches of tea. The teacher was not charged because according to local authorities, he didn’t have any sickness which could have potentially poisoned the kindergarten teachers.

What do you think? Should the two students be charged for trying to poison their teacher’s coffee?

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