Girl said stabbing a way to celebrity, court told

A 14-year-old miss who stabbed 3 radical astatine a schoolhouse told constabulary officers it was “one mode to beryllium a celebrity,” a tribunal heard.

Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a pupil astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman successful Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, were taken to infirmary with stab wounds connected 24 April.

On the 4th time of the trial, the assemblage astatine Swansea Crown Court saw bodycam footage of a constabulary serviceman who arrested the miss and sat with her successful a vehicle, wherever she referred to the pupil she stabbed, saying: “I stabbed her. Oopsies”.

The girl, who cannot beryllium named due to the fact that of her age, admits the triple stabbing but denies attempted murder.

During her arrest, she could beryllium seen staring astatine serviceman Sophia Coschignano-Brown, earlier being taken to the vehicle.

The footage besides showed her asking the serviceman if the 2 teachers and the pupils were going to die.

“I’ve had loads of eyes connected maine today,” she added.

“Sooner oregon aboriginal I’m 90% definite this is going to beryllium connected the news. That is 1 mode to beryllium a celebrity."

By the clip she arrived astatine the constabulary station, the assemblage past heard the miss asking the serviceman however she was going to look her household "after what I've done".

The assemblage besides watched CCTV of the incidental again, with prosecution barrister William Hughes KC explaining the timeline successful much detail.

The miss could beryllium seen sitting astir a array with a radical of pupils, and showing them a knife.

She approached Ms Elias and Ms Hopkin extracurricular and spoke to them for astir 2 minutes, earlier striking Ms Elias with a knife.

Ms Elias could beryllium seen moving distant from the scene, with Ms Hopkin past being stabbed aggregate times, erstwhile successful her neck.

CCTV footage past showed the miss moving towards a miss and shouting astatine her, earlier striking her with a knife.

A Snapchat video was besides shown to the jury, which showed the infinitesimal teacher Darrel Campbell restrained the miss aft she stabbed the pupil.

The assemblage besides heard witnesser statements from the school’s head, James Durbridge and lawman Ceri Myers.

Mr Durbridge said helium took a telephone from Ms Elias during break, who told him she had been stabbed, and truthful helium ordered a "code red" lockdown.

On his mode to her, the assemblage heard that a teaching adjunct told him Ms Hopkin had been stabbed.

On his accomplishment astatine the country helium said helium saw the teenage miss being restrained by Mr Campbell.

“Her breathing was heavy,” Mr Durbridge said. “I said to her twice, ‘you’re harmless but I request the knife’.”

He explained that helium placed his manus connected her wrist and she released the knife.

Mr Myers said the miss was brought to his bureau aft the incident, arsenic Mr Durbridge went to spot Ms Hopkin, who was “bleeding profusely".

When constabulary arrived, Mr Myers explained that they asked the miss to unfastened her mouth, to which she replied: “If I had thing successful my rima I would person utilized it to termination myself by now”.

She was asked if she was having immoderate thought of self-harm, to which she replied "no".

The miss was arrested connected suspicion of attempted execution and the assemblage heard she looked down to the ground.

A connection from the archetypal paramedic connected the scene, William Pridmore-Bowen, was besides shared with the jury.

He saw Ms Hopkin first, and helium confirmed she had aggregate stab wounds, and was taken to the aerial ambulance connected a stretcher erstwhile it arrived.

The paramedic past went to spot Ms Elias and the pupil, who “did not request urgent treatment”, but they were each taken to infirmary to beryllium treated.

The proceedings continues.