Schoolgirl who forgot her dinner money is given bread and water

A girl of eight who forgot her £3.50 lunch money was instead given a school dinner of bread and water.

For dessert, Courtney Williams got a blackened banana.



"Prisoners get better food", her mother Michelle said. "I was fuming."

The incident happened at Castle Hill Primary School in Brockworth, Gloucester, which has "healthy school" status.

Courtney said: "It was very embarrassing when I took my plate up to get some food with all the other children and they just handed me another plate with dry bread on it.

"I was quite upset. I had to sit and watch everyone else eat proper meals and I just had some bread and an old banana with a black skin."