A teacher who was allegedly stabbed alongside her colleague and a pupil by a teenage schoolgirl in the nightmare that unfolded in the playground has been named as the school’s head of year seven.
What Happened?
Drama and Welsh teacher Fiona Elias were two of the three being treated for non-life threatening injuries after the knife attack Wednesday morning.
The Attacker Is Arrested
Police have since arrested a year nine pupil on the ground of attempted murder after she wielded a butterfly knife in the attack and taken away in handcuffs for questioning, it is understood.
Eye-witnesses said one was slashed across the throat with a butterfly knife and six paramedics carried her into a helicopter on the school playing field.
Operation Code Red
A young student who jumped the school fence to escape said: ‘It was at the end of the morning break when I heard Code Red being called over the speakers.
‘I’ve never heard one before but I knew what it meant.
‘You’re supposed to run to a classroom but I was closer to the school fence so me and a few other boys jumped it.’
Some pupils hid in cupboards where they messaged their parents to let them know what was happening inside the bilingual school.
But most were kept inside locked classrooms and told to keep their head down until the danger had passed.
The shocking aftermath of the stabbing was caught on video, in which one boy could be heart shouting: ‘That girl’s got stabbed.’
