The teacher left her drink bottle containing wine in the classroom. However, the principal at the previous school was alerted by a teacher and four community members about the shoplifting. The woman was on lunch duty during the second half of the lunch break, leaving her responsible for monitoring students. While on duty, she grabbed a bottle of wine from her car and poured it into her drink bottle and then, leaving the wine bottle in her car, sat at an outside table on school grounds and drank several sips from the drink bottle. After the lunch break, she left her drink bottle containing the wine in her classroom while she went on a walk with a class of students.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 20, 2026 00:41 UTC