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A supply teacher who reportedly called a Muslim boy pupil of 12 a terrorist has been sacked.

A source said the female teacher had used the word after the boy complained about being put on detention for talking.

The source said: “She said in front of the whole class: ‘I don’t negotiate with terrorists’. He said: ‘What did you call me?’

“She said she wasn’t going to apologise. She said, ‘It’s just a saying.’”

However, the teacher later apologised after the boy threatened to report her to the headteacher, the source said.

Mark Phillips, headteacher at Deptford Green secondary school in South-east London, said in a statement: “As soon as we were made aware of this incident we acted, resulting in the immediate dismissal of the supply teacher.

“We have apologised to the student and his mother and reassured them that we will not tolerate any form of bullying or racism in our school.”