Chilling moment schoolboy, 12, ‘stalks playground brandishing HUGE knife in front of pupils’

CHILLING footage has captured a schoolboy allegedly stalking a playground portion brandishing a ample weapon successful beforehand of terrified pupils.

Cops raced to Redditch Vale High successful Stockport yesterday day aft claims a pupil was seen holding the unsafe weapon.

In footage, pupils outcry arsenic the lad casually walks done the playground with a ample leaf successful his hand.

Students tin beryllium heard asking "what you doing man?" and "why person you got a knife?"

He's seen walking successful betwixt 2 men, 1 dressed successful a high-vis jacket, earlier helium breaks into a tally connected the schoolhouse grounds.

The leaf tin intelligibly beryllium seen by onlookers and is caught reflecting airy successful the footage.

Cops were called to the premises astir 3pm aft a lad was spotted waving the unsafe instrument.

Parents told the Manchester Evening News it was "terrifying" and immoderate are refusing to fto their children instrumentality to school.

They person claimed they won't beryllium sending their children to immoderate much classes.

Afterwards, students were ushered into the theatre until their parents could prime them up.

A acrophobic mum of a Year 7 lad said she received a worrying telephone from her son.

She said: "I said to him bash not permission the schoolhouse grounds, I volition travel and get you.

"I won't beryllium sending my lad successful time and I don't cognize if I volition beryllium for the remainder of the week, oregon if I'll beryllium looking for a caller schoolhouse for him.

"It's perfectly terrifying."

Another mum who shared a video of the incidental refused to instrumentality it down aft Reddish Vale High asked her to region it.

She responded: "I haven't due to the fact that radical person got a close to cognize that their kids are harmless erstwhile they spell to schoolhouse and intelligibly they're not.

"I've told the schoolhouse that I won't beryllium sending my girl to schoolhouse until I cognize what precautions person been enactment successful spot to support our children safe."

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said "Officers were called to a schoolhouse connected Reddish Vale Road successful Stockport astatine astir 3:10pm Monday 10 February pursuing reports of a idiosyncratic with a weapon connected the premises.

"Thankfully, nary 1 sustained immoderate superior injuries.

"A 12-year-old lad was arrested connected suspicion of battle and possession of a bladed article.

"He has been taken into constabulary custody."

Cops person assured residents that "additional patrols" volition beryllium contiguous successful the area.

A spokesperson for Stockport Borough Council said: "We are alert of the distressing incidental that took spot astatine Reddish Vale School earlier contiguous and we recognize the concerns being shared by parents, students, and the wider community.

"The constabulary were connected tract to woody with the incidental and marque the schoolhouse harmless and we are thankful nary 1 was harmed.

"We are moving intimately with the schoolhouse to enactment them and privation to reassure everyone that the information of pupils and teachers is our highest priority."

Greater Manchester Police confirmed that a 12-year-old boy, who cannot beryllium named for ineligible reasons, was arrested.

He has since been charged with attempted assault, possession of a bladed article, threatening a idiosyncratic with an violative weapon, and possession of an violative limb successful a nationalist place.

The lad has been remanded into custody and was owed to look astatine Manchester and Salford Youth Court connected Tuesday, 11 February.

Chief Inspector John Picton, of GMP's Stockport Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "Whilst we bash judge that this was an isolated incident, further patrols person been deployed to the country to connection reassurance to the section community.

"If you person immoderate questions oregon concerns, delight bash not hesitate to talk to them."

The alarming lawsuit follows an incidental past week erstwhile a pupil was threatened with a weapon connected schoolhouse premises.

The Sun has reached retired to Reddish Vale High for a comment.