A CO Armagh maths teacher has confessed to a catalogue of harassment, intimidation and making threats to kill charges.
Patrick Hollywood (41) of Upper Fathom Road in Newry appeared at the city's Crown Court today.
Hollywood, who was a teacher at St Patrick's High School in Keady, entered guilty pleas to seven charges of making a threat to kill, six of harassment, four of attempted intimidation.
He also pleaded guilty to single counts of forgery and causing another person to fear that violence would be used against them, all committed between December 31 2016 and December 1 2018.
None of the facts were opened in court, but it is understood the charges follow an investigation into complaints of harassment and intimidation over incidents at St Patrick's.
The teacher has admitted harassing former principal Pat McGuckian, who resigned from her post in April 2018, citing what she described as "a vicious campaign of bullying and harassment" having received a series of malicious and anonymous letters since January 2017.
Adjourning the case to June 30 for sentencing, Judge Gordon Kerr said while he was granting continuing bail to Hollywood, he warned him "not to take that as any indication what sentence may be passed".
