'We are not in North Korea' blasts Burke bro

Simeon pleads not quilty to breach of peace

- TOM TUITE

A BROTHER of sacked school teacher Enoch Burke pleaded not guilty yesterday to a breach of the peace in connection with outbursts in the Court of Appeal.

Simeon Burke, 24, a barrister-at-law Kings Inn student, told Judge Cephas Power at Cloverhill District Court: "We are not in North Korea, judge, where you can be thrown in a cell and not be told what you have done."

He remains in custody and said yesterday that he should have been sitting his drafting exams in Kings Inns as he demanded a speedy trial and accused gardai of telling "lies".

He will learn his hearing date today. The student had been arrested following chaotic scenes where gardai intervened in the Court of Appeal in the Four Courts after a judgment was handed down in teacher Enoch Burke's case on March 7.

Simeon Burke and his family had been there to support his brother, awaiting a ruling on his unsuccessful appeal against the High Court orders restraining him from attending Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath.