A 13-year-old schoolgirl who stabbed two teachers and a classmate told police: ‘That’s one way to be a celebrity’, a court heard.
The girl is accused of smuggling her father’s fishing knife into school with the intention of killing the assistant head teacher.
She was heard saying: ‘I’m going to f-ing kill you,’ before stabbing Fiona Elias, 48, and special needs teacher Liz Hopkin, 53, who tried to intervene.
Still armed with the multi-tool fishing knife, the girl ran to a different part of the school where she stabbed a female classmate.
WHAT SHE SAID IN COURT
Swansea Crown Court heard the girl asked police if they knew the schoolgirl victim and added: ‘I stabbed her, Oopsies’.
Prosecutor William Hughes KC said: ‘In the rear of a police car she made a number of significant comments.
‘Among them she said: ‘I suppose things like this don’t happen very often. Are they dead?
‘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 was searched every morning after previously taking a knife into school hidden under hundreds of felt-tipped pens, the jury was told.
