Girl, 14, guilty of attempted murder after stabbing two teachers and a pupil
Girl, 14, guilty of attempted murder after stabbing two teachers and a pupil
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. A 14-year-old girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil at a school in Wales has been found guilty of attempted murder. The attack at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Carmarthenshire last April left Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and the pupil in hospital. The girl, who cannot be named because of her age, previously denied three counts of attempted murder.
She instead previously pleaded guilty to three counts of wounding with intent and a further count of possession of a bladed article on a school premises. But she has now been found guilty of attempted murder at Swansea crown court. During the week-long trial, the jury heard the girl brought a weapon to school every day. Last April 24, the day of the attack, she used her dad’s multi-tool knife to first attack Fiona Elias, shouting ‘I’m going to f****** kill you’ as she stabbed the teacher.
Other pupils said the girl told them she would stab Ms Elias and ‘do something stupid’ to get herself expelled. The girl then turned to attack Liz Hopkin, who she didn’t know. Following a ‘stand-off’ the girl then ran to a different part of the school, running towards another pupil with a knife and shouting ‘I’m going to kill you’. She stabbed the pupil before she was restrained by teacher Darrel Campbell, and then arrested.
After she was arrested, the girl made a series of comments in the back of a police vehicle, telling officers ‘I stabbed her – oopsies’. She said: ‘I’m pretty sure this is going to be on the news, so more eyes will be looking at me. That’s one way to be a celebrity.’. The girl also asked ‘are they dead?’, referring to her victims, and ‘how am I going to face my family after what I’ve done?’.
Drawings found in her home referenced Mrs Elias and the girl she attacked, with one note saying the girl will “burn” and another “cut their mouths and eyes”. During the trial, the girl told jurors she was sorry for the incident and could not remember large parts of what happened. ‘It doesn’t sound like me. It doesn’t feel like something I would do,’ she said. All three victims survived the attack, but Ms Hopkin had to be air lifted to hospital in Cardiff after being stabbed in the neck.
Judge Paul Thomas KC adjourned sentencing until April 28. He also thanked the jury for their work in a ‘difficult and unusual trial’. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk. For more stories like this, check our news page. Arrow MORE: Man admits setting fire to Koran during livestream near terror attack memorial. Arrow MORE: PhD student ‘raped woman after stopping her from leaving his flat’.