Foul-mouthed nursery worker calls child a f***ing tw*t

A school assistant is being investigated after she called a five-year-old girl a ”f***ing tw*t” – in a phone call to the child’s mother. Foul-mouthed Pat Smith, 57, made the shocking comments at the end of an answer phone message when she thought she had hung up. The vile abuse was directed at five-year-old Megan Astle who accidentally took Smith’s book bag home from school last Friday. At the end of a call to Megan’s mum Katie, Smith, 57, was heard moaning to a colleague: ”f***ing tw*t took my bag home”.

Shocked Katie, 27, played the 52-second recording to the headteacher of Cobden Primary School in Loughborough, Leics., but was told to ”move on”. The misunderstanding happened last Friday when Megan accidentally picked up a book bag from class which belonged to Smith. Katie says it was an easy mistake as the students and teachers have the same book bags which are embossed with the school logo.



Smith left the message on Katie’s mobile phone on Friday night. She starts off politely and even says she is ”sorry to bother you”. After asking the mum-of-three to check whether her daughter had taken the wrong bag, she says ”thank you” and appears to hang up but the phone is still on. She then says to another person ”f***ing tw*t took my bag home” while the person is heard saying ”Oh no”.

Gravel-voiced Smith then says: ”It wasn’t me handbag” before background noise interferes and she eventually hangs up. Katie, who has two other kids, daughter Ashleigh, seven, and 21-month-old Riley, said: ”When I listened to the voicemail I thought ‘I must have got that wrong’, so I listened to it again. I don’t believe it. I’m absolutely disgusted that someone who works with children can call one of them a ‘f****ing tw*t”. Katie is so appalled she has taken Megan and her older daughter Ashleigh out of school until Smith is disciplined.