Social worker trained to be carpenter after bat episode

A social worker at a young offenders’ unit goaded a 14-year-old boy into throwing a ping pong bat at him, a hearing was told. Richard Williams called the troubled teenager a ‘f***ing coward’ and said he ‘snaked’ another lad on 16 November 2014. Williams made the remarks while working as a residential care worker at the Vinney Green Secure Unit in Bristol – 24-bed secure unit for young offenders aged 10-17. The incident began when the 14-year-old attacked another inmate…