Girl, 14, tells court she stabbed two teachers and pupil on school playground because she ‘woke up in bad mood’
A SCHOOLGIRL today told a court she stabbed two teachers and a pupil on the playground because she “woke up in a bad mood”.
The teen, who was aged 13 at the time, is accused of launching into a frenzied attack at Ysgo Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Wales.
Jurors heard she first knifed assistant headteacher Fiona Elias after telling her: “I’m going to f***ing kill you”.
The girl also stabbed Fiona’s colleague Liz Hopkin, 53, as she rushed over to help and a 14-year-old student, it is said.
Giving evidence at Swansea Crown Court today, the girl was asked why she brought a bladed “fishing multi-tool” to school.
She said: “I get very upset or grumpy when I’m on my period. I woke up in a bad mood that morning.”
The teen, now aged 14, told jurors she had armed herself with a knife in school since Year 3 as she felt “scared and worried”.
Six months before the attack, she was caught with a vegetable knife in lessons and suspended for a week.
But on April 24 – the day of the attack, she smuggled the blade into school in the waistband of her trousers, the court heard.
In footage shown to jurors, the girl could be seen stabbing Fiona before lashing out at brave Liz.
She also attacked a pupil in the upper torso and leg and left Liz with knife wounds to her neck, back, legs and arms.
The court heard the horror only came to an end when two male members of staff, Stephen Hagget and Darrell Campbell, rushed over.
After she was arrested, the girl told police: “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.”
Giving evidence, she claimed she now feels “terrible” and “guilty” over the attack.
She added: “I regret the way I behave, I feel sorry, I’d do anything to go back.”
The girl also told the court she didn’t attempt to murder anyone and didn’t want them to die.
She told jurors: “I remember thinking to myself: “What am I doing? Stop. I can’t look back, it’s dark, I remember being very hot.”
Police searched the girl’s home and discovered a school planner with the words “death before dishonour” written on it.
The court was told she also wrote about how a girl would “burn” and had scrawled “cut their mouths and eyes” on a drawing of a woman.
She also labelled another drawing “Mrs Frogface Elias”, it was said.
The girl, who can’t be named, denies three charges of attempted murder but admits three counts of wounding with intent and one of possessing a bladed article article on school premises.
The trial continues.