An East Finchley school was in the dock this week about allegations of racial discrimination.

Two former pupils are suing Bishop Douglass Roman Catholic High School’s board of governors, alleging that the former headteacher and head of sixth-form had racially discriminated against the black teenagers when deciding to permanently exclude the pair in 2002.

Rinehart Appiah and Frank Wabwire were 17 and business studies students when they were thrown out of the school, in Hamilton Road, following a fight in the sixth-form common room.

It is also alleged that black students were not allowed to have patterned haircuts, or cornrow’ braids, while an Irish student was allowed to dye his hair green for St Patrick’s Day.

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