The assemblage successful the proceedings of a young miss accused of stabbing 2 teachers and a chap pupil astatine a schoolhouse successful South Wales has been discharged.
The 14-year-old, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, admits wounding with intent but denies attempted execution aft stabbing 3 radical astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman – besides known arsenic Amman Valley School – successful Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, connected April 24. During the proceedings astatine Swansea Crown Court connected Wednesday, Judge Paul Thomas KC discharged the jury.
He said: “There has been a large irregularity successful the assemblage which we each hold has irretrievably compromised our quality to see this matter. With the top of imaginable reluctance, I volition person to discharge this jury.”
The justice said the determination was undesirable and the miss volition person to basal proceedings again successful the caller year. A caller proceedings has been acceptable for January 27.
She faces 7 charges, including 3 of attempted murder, 3 of wounding with intent and 1 of possession of a bladed nonfiction connected a schoolhouse premises.
Pupils astatine the schoolhouse went into lockdown connected April 24 aft the incidental took spot astatine the extremity of greeting break. Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin on with an unnamed pupil were wounded but released from hospital.
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