Teen found guilty of attempted murder in Norfolk school stabbing
Thorpe St Andrew School attack left girl injured and prompted armed police response
A teenage boy who stabbed a girl in the back at his school has been found guilty of her attempted murder.
Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said the boy had an “obsessive and dangerous interest in killers and killing” and had written in a note about his “hatred for women”.
He said that on March 11, the defendant went to Thorpe St Andrew School in Norfolk “not to learn but to kill, taking with him a kitchen knife which he used to stab” a 15-year-old girl “in the back”.
He told a trial at King’s Lynn Crown Court the boy, then aged 15 and now 16, was “dressed in black, masked up and tooled up with a kitchen knife”.
The school went into lockdown after the attack and there was an armed police response, with the girl taken to hospital and later discharged.
Mr Paxton said it was “sheer good fortune” she was not more badly hurt.
The boy, who pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and possession of a knife at a school, did not give evidence in his defence.
He had denied attempted murder but a jury found him guilty on Wednesday after three hours and 54 minutes of deliberation.