Former Methodist College Belfast pupil Gabriel McConkey, 19, was left 'absolutely broken' after he was forced to strip naked and had his head shaved during a school trip to Portugal in 2022.
A former pupil at one of Northern Ireland's top grammar schools was left 'absolutely broken' after he was forced to strip naked and had his head shaved as part of a 'hazing' ritual.
His mother, Sian Mawhinney, said: 'The child that we sent on a school trip is not the child that returned home to us, either physically or mentally.Speaking to BBC News NI, she added that parents 'expect their children to be looked after and to be supervised and obviously something went terribly wrong. He was traumatised by it.'
Mr McConkey, from the Carryduff on the outskirts of Belfast, was aged 17 and in Lower Sixth Form at Methody when selected to travel to a sports resort on the Algarve for warm weather training. Mr McConkey was also forced to strip off, run along a stretch of path and jump into a swimming pool in a 'naked mile' ritual, it was alleged.
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