TRYSTAN Williams has described his treatment during 18 months away from his role as principal at Springfields Academy as inhumane.

In an interview with the BBC, broadcast on Wednesday evening, Mr Williams spoke about the issues he has faced since his suspension for an alleged assault on a pupil back in October 2013.

A year later the Crown Prosecution Service announced that no charges would be brought against him or his vice principal James Lynch, who had also been suspended from his post.

Mr Williams lost an appeal against his dismissal by the governors at Springfields Academy, a school for children with complex learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties, on Tuesday and must now leave his home on the campus.

He said: “I have been locked up, I have been interviewed four times, I have been re-bailed 11 times.

“I am a professional I am a school leaders I am here to work with young people to transform lives and the way I was treated was inhumane.

“For the first six weeks after an accident with a young person in school I could not see my own children or my own wife unsupervised. It took me 7 months to be able to come home to my family home 24 hours a day.

“My children have had psychotherapy because every time their Dad went out they thought I would not return because they thought I would be locked up again.”

Over 700 people have signed a petition calling for the reinstatement of Mr Williams and Mr Lynch.

Mr Williams told the Gazette and Herald he would take his case to the highest court in the land to clear his professional name.