A 13-year-old girl told police “that’s one way to be a celebrity” after stabbing two teachers and a pupil at a school in south Wales, a jury has heard.
As she sat in the back of a police car after the attack, the teenager said to officers: “I’m pretty sure this is going to be on the news so more eyes are going to be looking at me,” Swansea crown court was told.
All three victims survived the attack, which took place during morning breaktime at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, in April, but one of the teachers was so badly hurt that she had to be taken by air ambulance to hospital where she was treated for a neck wound
At the start of the trial, Judge Paul Thomas KC told jurors that the trial included some “unusual features”. He said that because of her age, the defendant, who is now 14, would be referred to her by her first name and would sit in the body of the court rather than the dock. He also said there would be regular breaks for her.
William Hughes KC, prosecuting, said the girl had admitted wounding the three people and taking a bladed article…
