Brave teacher saves schoolgirl from knife-wielding classmate during violent school attack

Police astatine Amman Valley school, successful Ammanford, Carmarthenshire (Image: PA)

A schoolgirl making her mode to lessons was stabbed successful the limb and thorax by a blade-wielding classmate who came “running” astatine her earlier being saved by a brave teacher who dragged her away, a tribunal heard

The 13-year-old miss had seconds earlier allegedly attempted to execution 2 teachers who she stabbed successful an detonation of unit astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman successful Ammanford, South Wales.

The classmate, aged 14 astatine the time, told however she was being told astir a weapon onslaught connected adjunct caput Fiona Elias, 48,  and workfellow Liz Hopkins, 53, erstwhile she was acceptable upon herself by the miss with a two-inch sportfishing instrumentality leaf successful April.

Swansea Crown Court heard the constabulary interrogation successful which the girl, present 15, told however she was making her mode to a acquisition erstwhile she noticed a “big assemblage of people”.

She said: “I went implicit and I was asking, ‘What’s happened?’ And radical were saying ‘She’s stabbed people, she’s stabbed teachers and she’s got a knife’. I saw her and I was similar 'Jeez'.

Parents hold astatine the gates of Amman Valley school, successful Ammanford, Carmarthenshire (Image: PA)

Police vehicles astatine the country of Amman Valley schoolhouse (Image: PA)

"She’s grabbing astatine maine and going 'I’m going to f****** termination you. I turned to my person and said 'Why the f***she threatening maine for, I haven’t done anything'.

"I turned backmost circular and she’s moving astatine maine with a knife. I cognize I was connected the level and she was trying to stab me. Sir dragged her disconnected maine and enactment her successful an limb lock.”

The tribunal heard rugby teacher Darrel Campbell intervened to tackle the girl, who cannot beryllium named, and detained her successful a schoolroom until constabulary arrived.

After being arrested the present 14-year-old miss boasted to police: “All eyes volition beryllium connected maine now,” and “that’s 1 mode of being a celebrity.”

She admits wounding 3 victims and possessing a bladed nonfiction but denies 3 charges of attempted murder.

The assemblage was told however some Mrs Elias and Mrs Hopkin were attacked aft confronting the miss for trying to entree a hallway astatine the schoolhouse earlier asking what was successful her pocket.

The miss allegedly said: “Do you privation to spot what's successful my pocket?” earlier pulling retired the metallic leaf and shouting “I’m going to f***ing termination you”.

William Hughes KC, prosecuting, said Mrs Elias was her “primary focus”, arsenic she was stabbed repeatedly successful the limb but peculiar needs teacher Mrs Hopkin was the astir earnestly injured.

Mrs Elias told jurors: “I thought I was going to die. I thought that was it.”

All 3 victims were taken to infirmary for attraction - Mrs Elias and the injured pupil were taken to Morriston Hospital.

Mrs Elias had stab and puncture wounds to her arms and to a thumb, and the pupil had wounds to her backmost and lesser injuries to her legs.

Mrs Hopkin was flown by aerial ambulance to the University Hospital of Wales successful Cardiff.

She had stab wounds to her leg, a coiled to the rear of the near broadside of the chest, and a stab coiled astatine the apical of the cervix into the trapezius muscle.

All 3 were aboriginal released to retrieve astatine home.

The tribunal heard a tiny weapon - a rootlike benignant weapon - was antecedently recovered successful the schoolgirl's bag, and she was excluded for a mates of days.

The schoolhouse was placed into a "code red" lockdown for respective hours earlier pupils were capable to permission astatine astir 3.20pm.

Police were called to the schoolhouse and the teen - with marks and scratched connected her arms - was detained successful a schoolroom earlier officers arrived and aboriginal arrested her.

While with officers, she asked them "I accidental things similar this don’t hap precise often" and "if they’re dead."

She was interviewed connected 3 occasions and replied “no comment” to each questions asked.

Mr Hughes said that portion officers were searching her household location aboriginal that day, they recovered a notebook with a drafting of a pistillate with words suggesting sidesplitting and decease - and references to "burning" a idiosyncratic and cutting their "mouth and eyes to death."

He said that it was “demonstrative her intent astatine the clip and intent to kill.”

The proceedings continues.