Daily Mail - 01.08.2019

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Ex-Audi boss


accused of


diesel fraud


AUDI’S former chief execu-
tive has been charged with
fraud over the ‘dieselgate’
emissions cheating scandal.
Professor Rupert Stadler
was accused of allowing the
sale of 430,000 cars fitted
with ‘defeat devices’ to fool
regulators’ emissions tests.
In September 2015 Volkswa-
gen, Audi’s parent company,
admitted selling 11million
cheating vehicles worldwide
after a US investigation.
But Professor Stadler is said
to have knowingly continued
to sell affected vehicles. Pros-
ecutors said he was ‘accused
of fraud, falsifying certifica-
tions and illegal advertising’.

school for four years, had been
seen ‘sloshing around his pint
and swaggering’.
A second witness said pupils
had commented that Mr Mor-
rison was drunk, to which he
responded that he did not care
because he was ‘leaving in a
couple of weeks’.
In a written statement, Mr
Morrison admitted he had
drunk ‘six to seven pints of
San Miguel’ but insisted: ‘I
was not falling over, fighting or
being sick... admittedly I had a
few too many drinks.’
He denied encouraging sex-
ual activity among pupils and
claimed his comments had
been ‘twisted and taken out of
context’. On his threats to
‘knock out’ the head, he

By James Tozer

Seven-pint teacher told


boys at prom that ‘the


girls are gagging for it’


A DRUNKEN teacher who told
schoolboys that girl classmates


were ‘gagging for it’ at their end-of-


year prom and threatened to ‘knock


out’ the head teacher has avoided


being banned.
Music and drama teacher Lewis Mor-
rison, 29, knocked back ‘six or seven
pints’ at the bash at Gary Neville’s
Hotel Football, near Manchester Unit-


ed’s Old Trafford stadium, a discipli-
nary panel heard.
Referring to girl pupils at the school, he
was overheard saying: ‘Lads, you need to go
where this lot are for the after-party, they
are gagging for it.’
Mr Morrison, who had already handed in
his notice at Albion Academy, Salford, was
filmed on mobile phones shouting and

swearing. Footage was shown of Mr Morri-
son making a headbutt action and saying
he would knock out the school principal,
adding: ‘Put that on Snapchat’. The footage
was later shared widely on social media.
But he was spared a classroom ban for
misconduct after the Teaching Regulation
Agency ruled it was a ‘one-off ’.
The panel, sitting in Coventry, heard that
Mr Morrison was asked to leave the Year 11
prom on June 29, 2018. One witness told
how Mr Morrison, who had taught at the

‘Crass
stupidity’

described it as ‘among a range
of silly jokes that I have taken
too far’.
Panel chairman Dr Melvyn
Kershaw said: ‘His actions
were those of crass stupidity,
which represented a consider-
able misjudgment as to what
was an appropriate amount to
drink, and language to use, at
an end-of-year prom.’
The panel concluded his
actions amounted to unac-
ceptable professional conduct
but decided publication of the
tribunal’s findings was enough
punishment.
Dr Kershaw added: ‘There
was no evidence that there
were any underlying concerns
regarding Mr Morrison. His
behaviour, whilst undoubtedly
a serious mistake, had taken
place during a limited time-
period on one evening.’

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD

DAY


ON THIS


August 1, 2019


FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
AUGUST 1, 1936
A LITTLE flame, brought through the
darkness last night on a lonely country road
south of Berlin, will crown today the great-
est festival of sport in history. This flame will
be raised by Herr Hitler in the sight of
100,000 people in the huge stadium and he
will light with it a brazier to symbolise the
opening of the 11th Olympic Games.
AUGUST 1, 1961
THE BBC admitted last night it hoaxed
Third Programme listeners who tuned in to
Piotr Zak’s Mobile For Tape And Percus-
sion. It said ‘there is no Mr Zak’ and the
piece was a tape of percussion instruments
played at random. It was an experiment to
show that some contemporary pieces were
‘indistinguishable’ from random sounds.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JASON MOMOA, 40. The
Hawaiian-born actor has
starred as superhero Aqua-
man and appeared in Game
Of Thrones. Momoa says he
developed a crush on his
wife, Cosby Show star Lisa
Bonet, when he was eight
and saw her on TV (she is 11
years his senior). The couple
(right) — at 6ft 4in, he is 14
inches taller — had two children before he
told her ‘otherwise it would be creepy and
weird... she was a queen, always’. He is also
stepfather to Lisa’s daughter, Zoe, from her
first marriage to rock star Lenny Kravitz.
AMBER RUDD, 56. The Work and Pensions
Secretary was one of the few ministers to
retain their job in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet
reshuffle last week. Her marriage to A.A. Gill,
the late restaurant critic, hit the rocks after
she surprised him at Heathrow airport after
he flew in from Monte Carlo and caught him
returning with a blonde on his arm. Rudd
then offered her husband and his mistress a
lift back to London. Recalling the surreal car
journey, she said: ‘We were all in denial.’

BORN ON THIS DAY
HERMAN MELVILLE
(1819-1891). The U.S. author,
born 200 years ago today,
received poor reviews for
what is now regarded as his
masterpiece, Moby-Dick. A
critic wrote in the New York
Albion: ‘There is no method
in his madness.’ In 2010,
Emoji Dick was published,
after more than 800 people translated the
book’s 10,000 sentences into emoticons.
JERRY GARCIA (1942-1995). The guitarist
of the Grateful Dead chose the U.S. band’s
name after finding the phrase in a dictionary:
‘Everything else on the page went blank, dif-
fuse, just sorta oozed away, and there was
“GRATEFUL DEAD”, big black letters edged
all around in gold, man, blasting out at me,
such a stunning combination.’ An asteroid
and cockroach are named in his honour.

ON AUGUST 1...
IN 1086, the results of the Domesday survey
were presented to William the Conqueror.
IN 1986, U.S. tennis ace John McEnroe
married U.S. actress Tatum O’Neal.

WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Pearl (from 1960s)
A) A ponytail. B) To have your surfboard
nosedive into the waves. C) A teeny-bopper.
Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Brick and mortar: Meaning a shop or a
building; coined by novelist Charles Dickens
in his novel Little Dorrit.

QUOTE FOR TODAY
There is no sincerer love than
the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw,
Irish playwright (1856-1950)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a one-armed karate star?
A partial artist.
Guess The Definition answer: B.
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