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South Wales PoliceA head instructor has been jailed for 2 years and 4 months for attacking his deputy with a wrench after a love triangle dispute involving any other member of group of workers.
Anthony Felton, 54, of Penyrheol Road, Gorseinon, Swansea, pleaded in charge to grievous physically hurt with intent following the incident at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Comprehensive in Aberavon, Neath Port Talbot, on 5 March.
Richard Pyke, 51, was once handled for minor accidents in clinic following the assault.
Sentencing Felton at Swansea Crown Court on Friday, Judge Paul Thomas KC mentioned he suspected a head instructor attacking his deputy was once “entirely without precedent”.
The court docket heard Felton was once distressed after learning he was once the daddy of a fellow instructor’s kid having in the past had a courting along with her.
He had just lately found out Mr Pyke was once in a courting with the similar instructor.
In a sufferer affect remark, Mr Pyke informed the court docket Felton, who he relied on totally, introduced a steel wrench into his place of work.
Felton then inflicted a “number of blows” to his deputy.
The assault on 5 March was once absolutely stuck on CCTV and Mr Pyke was once handled for minor accidents.
He mentioned Felton had “manipulated me into a position of complete vulnerability”.
“I thought we were trusted colleagues who had, over many years, built up a relationship of trust and understanding,” he mentioned.
“It terrifies me still.
“I think I’ve misplaced such a lot of me… I’m no longer positive I can ever come to phrases with that.”
Giving his remarks to Felton, Judge Thomas cited the upcoming sentencing of a 14-year-old girl who attempted to kill two teachers and a pupil at a school in Ammanford, less than 25 miles (40km) away from Felton’s school.
“You knew in addition to any person will have recognized the present occurrence of violence in our colleges.
“Instances of pupils taking weapons into school and attacks on staff and fellow pupils are [an] all too common feature in the media.
“For the headmaster of a faculty must take and use a weapon to check out to badly injure their deputy is, I think, solely with out precedent.
“The appalling example this episode sets to others needs no emphasis from me.”
He informed Felton he was once “more than intelligent enough” to grasp the ramifications of his plot could be “fear reaching”.
He added: “He had been lured by you into what was in effect an ambush.
“Sexual jealousy bobbing up from an adulterous affair and the uncontrollable rage from you” had led to his ultimate downfall, he said.
Felton was told his sentence would have been three-and-a-half years without an early guilty plea and he would serve half of his sentence on licence.
He was once additionally given a restraining order when it comes to Mr Pike, his spouse and kids, for an indefinite length.
