Calday Grange headteacher’s heart failure blamed on suspension as allegations revealed

Andrew Hall

A HEADTEACHER suspended from a leading Merseyside grammar school suffered a life-threatening heart failure while waiting to learn his fate.

And today the Daily Post can also reveal the allegations behind the year-long mystery suspension of Calday Grange Grammar School headteacher, Andrew Hall.

Mr Hall, headmaster at the West Kirby school since 2002, was suspended in October, 2009, with parents only told his departure was “not of a financial or child protection nature” and he would be “absent for a while”.

But, as a disciplinary panel of governors was yesterday set to meet for a two-day hearing to decide whether to dismiss or reinstate him, the Daily Post can finally lift the lid on some of the allegations he has been accused of and the toll the suspension has taken on the Wirral man.

We can reveal governors have told Mr Hall he faces around 13 allegations.

These include:

That he failed to declare and report a foetus languishing in a biology department jar for more than 40 years;

Share