A pupil who broke into his school to sleep at night has been reunited with his former teachers nearly 30 years on. During what was a difficult childhood there was one place that John Barnett from Tregarth near Bangor considered a "safe heaven" - his secondary school, Ysgol Tryfan.
John left the Bangor school at the age of 16, but never forgot about his teachers' kindness and support. In a recent episode of Gwesty Aduniad on S4C (translated as 'Reunion Hotel'), which was aired on Tuesday, September 20), the 48-year-old gets the chance to thank his former mathematics teacher, Eifion Jones, and registry teacher, Rhys Llwyd, for helping him.
During the programme, John said: "There are teachers and there are teachers that go that extra mile. I didn't get the chance to say thank you to people and maybe they didn't realise what they did to help me. You don't forget the people who helped you. It was these teachers who gave me a chance in life."
