A SUDANESE school office assistant has denied sparking the case four months ago against Liverpool teacher Gillian Gibbons.
She was convicted of insulting Islam for letting her six-year-old pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed, breaking Sudan’s Sharia law, and was jailed for 15 days.
Sarah Khawad, who worked at the same Khartoum school as Gillian Gibbons, said she was not the source of the complaint against her, as media had reported at the time, citing school officials and the teacher’s defence lawyer.
“I did not say anything that would offend the teacher, Gillian, or incriminate her,” Ms Khawad said in a written statement.
She said a parent had raised the complaint against Ms Gibbons, but did not identify the person.
