<p><br /> A teacher who snapped and attacked a pupil who had been goading him has been cleared of attempted murder and causing grevious bodily harm with intent.<br /> </p><p><br /> The jury at Nottingham Crown Court took less than two hours to clear father-of-two Peter Harvey, 50, who had admitted causing grievous bodily harm without intent.<br /> </p><p><br /> Harvey attacked the 14-year-old boy with a three kilogram weight during a lesson at All Saints' Roman Catholic School in Mansfield last July.<br /> </p><p><br /> The court heard that he shouted "die, die, die" as he bludgeoned the boy with the weight after the pupil told him to "f*** off".<br /> </p><p><br /> It emerged during the four-day trial that pupils at the school were trying to wind up Harvey so his reaction could be caught on a camcorder being used secretly by a girl in the class.<br /> </p><p><br /> The footage was then to be passed around the school as a way of "humiliating" the teacher.<br /> </p><p><br /> Harvey's lawyer argued that he was in such a state when he battered the boy, a known trouble-maker, that he could not have possibly intended to kill or seriously harm him.<br /> </p>
