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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Par­ents, pupils de­tained by po­lice

School brawl over stolen phone

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More than 30 peo­ple, in­clud­ing par­ents and stu­dents, were tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion fol­low­ing a brawl be­tween fe­male stu­dents of the St Joseph Sec­ondary School out­side the school yes­ter­day.

Around 8.30 am the po­lice re­spond­ed to the re­port of a brawl out­side the school.

There they found a large group of peo­ple scream­ing and stu­dents fight­ing.

The fight, which hap­pened be­tween Form Four and Form Three stu­dents, ap­par­ent­ly start­ed when a stu­dent's phone was stolen. One group of stu­dents beat up an­oth­er fe­male stu­dent, and her friends joined in the fight.

Mean­while, the po­lice stat­ed, the par­ents were all ar­gu­ing. In to­tal 32 peo­ple were tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion–nine stu­dents and 18 adults.

Two of the adults, in­clud­ing one 20- and one 22-year-old woman, were phys­i­cal­ly in­volved in the fight, po­lice said.

Five stu­dents were sus­pend­ed for the fra­cas, and school of­fi­cials are still car­ry­ing out their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

All the oth­er peo­ple were re­leased, but they may still be charged pend­ing the com­ple­tion of the school's in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the po­lice probe and the sub­mis­sion of med­ical re­ports.


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