Schoolgirl walked into classroom and told teacher ‘Sir, I’ve been stabbed’ after attack, court hears

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A teenage girl described running and telling a teacher “Sir, I’ve been stabbed” after she was knifed in the back at her school, a court heard.

A boy, who was aged 15 at the time, is on trial at King’s Lynn Crown Court accused of her attempted murder at Thorpe St Andrew School near Norwich on 11 March.

The girl, then aged 15, told police in a video-recorded interview played to jurors on Thursday that she had seen a masked person dressed “head to toe in black, no school uniform on whatsoever”.

She said she turned away and it “felt like he touched me on the shoulder, then it felt like he punched me”.

She said she “didn’t know I was stabbed at this point” but she “started running”.

She said the boy, who is now aged 16 and cannot be identified for legal reasons, did not say anything to her and she did not recognise him.

The girl described struggling to open a door, adding she was “struggling because everything was going numb and feeling weak”.

The girl said she went into a classroom and “I went ‘Sir, I’ve been stabbed’”.

She said the school lockdown bell went off and school staff gave first aid.

She said that once she had opened the door “I felt sharp pain shooting through my back, I went like that and it was blood all over my hands”.

She said in the interview that was carried out days after the incident: “I don’t think it’s hit me properly yet.

Asked if she had had any issues with anyone at school, she replied: “No.”

She said that when she first saw the person dressed in black, “he had his hands in his pockets and he was just standing there”.

She said he was wearing a black mask and had his hood “over his forehead”.

She said she had looked at him and didn’t “think much of it” but when she turned away she was attacked.

“I thought he was about to keep throwing punches.”

Stephen Rose KC, defending, asked the girl, who came to court to give evidence, whether she had had any issues with the boy and she said she had not.

She wiped tears from her eyes and asked for a break during her evidence.

Christopher Paxton KC, opening the prosecution case, said the boy had written notes including about his “hatred for women” and had an interest in serial killers.

He said that one note, pinned up in the boy’s bedroom, said: “My barren world… Hello to all readers out there in the UK and perhaps even the world.

“If you’re reading this, I am either dead or in custody.

“I imagine the police will be the first to read this and seize it as evidence, so I will make something very clear.

“I made this decision to do so on my own.

“Nobody knew I wanted to do this. Not a single soul.”

In another note, Mr Paxton said the boy wrote: “My whole life I’ve felt an attraction to violence.

“I don’t know the reason. My brain clicks at the thought of chaos. Of blood. Of murder.”

The note continued: “I’ve seen killers being admired. I want admiration.”

Mr Paxton told jurors: “We the prosecution say his intention is made plain not just by those moments of the stabbing but made plain by his notes and his obsession with killing and being fuelled by hatred.”

The boy denies attempted murder and the trial continues.

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