Jury discharged in school triple stabbing trial

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BBC Teachers Liz Hopkin (left) and Fiona Elias (right)BBC

Teachers Liz Hopkin (left) and Fiona Elias (right) and a pupil were injured astatine the stabbing astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman successful April

The assemblage has been discharged successful the proceedings of a 14-year-old miss who stabbed 2 teachers and a pupil.

Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, arsenic good arsenic a pupil astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman successful Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, were taken to infirmary aft the incidental connected 24 April.

The girl, who cannot beryllium named owed to her age, admitted the triple stabbing but denied attempted murder.

The assemblage astatine Swansea Crown Court were sent retired for deliberations connected Tuesday but were discharged by Judge Paul Thomas KC connected Wednesday morning, with a retrial acceptable to statesman connected 27 January.

The justice said it was "profound and precise unsatisfactory to discharge the jury, particularly for the 14-year-old who volition person to basal proceedings again".

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