A Warwick woman who admitted unlawfully assaulting two schoolchildren was handed a conditional discharge in Magistrates’ Court.

Michelle Burrows Robinson, 48, of Somers Lane in Warwick, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of unlawful assault dating to October 2018.

Both victims were nine-year-old P5 students and cannot be identified for legal reasons.

The court heard both incidents occurred after Burrows Robinson appeared at the school on October 29, 2018.

The mother of the first child told police two days later that her son had been approached in the school hall by the defendant and poked repeatedly in the forehead.

In the second instance, according to another police report on October 31, Burrows Robinson approached a girl in physical education class in front of her teacher, gripped her by the shirt, and shook the child before her teacher intervened.

Burrows Robinson declined to comment when arrested and interviewed by police in March 2019.

But she entered a guilty plea to both offences in court on Wednesday before magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo.

Mr Tokunbo gave her a conditional discharge of nine months for both offences.

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