Teacher stabbed by pupil thought she was going to die

A teacher who was stabbed by a teenage pupil said she thought she was going to die, a assemblage has heard.

Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, on with a student, were injured successful the onslaught successful April astatine Ysgol Dyffryn Aman successful Ammanford.

The 14-year-old antecedently admitted the triple stabbing, but denies attempted murder.

On the 2nd time of the trial, the assemblage were shown CCTV footage of the incidental and a constabulary interrogation with Ms Elias from the aforesaid evening.

Ms Elias, the school’s adjunct head, explained however the miss had “looked astatine her with sinister eyes, similar she was going to bash thing to me” earlier stabbing her.

She said she came to cognize the miss astatine the opening of the schoolhouse twelvemonth erstwhile she recovered a weapon successful her bag.

She besides taught the pupil, and said that determination had been immoderate problems with behaviour, saying she could beryllium “immature” and “either truly blessed oregon moody”.

On the time of the incident, she explained that she had asked the miss to permission the little hallway of the school, arsenic she had done successful the past, arsenic she didn’t person support to beryllium determination during interruption time.

The teacher said she noticed her playing with thing successful her pocket.

“She was looking astatine me, saying ‘I privation to enactment successful here’,” Fiona Elias explained successful her interrogation with the police.

“She came up to me, facing me, rather adjacent to me. She was conscionable looking astatine maine with these eyes, truthful sinister, and playing with immoderate she had successful her pocket.

“Very distant, precise menacing, looking astatine maine similar she was going to bash something, looking close done me. Quite ironically, ‘if looks could kill’.”

The speech finished, Ms Elias said, and she past near the gathering to spell and articulation her workfellow Ms Hopkin outside, with the miss approaching them immoderate minutes later.

Ms Elias said she explained to the miss again wherefore she had nary support to spell to the little hall, arsenic good arsenic asking her astir her trousers, which didn’t comply with schoolhouse uniform.

Ms Elias added that she had a "sinister look" and continued to "play immoderate she had successful her pocket."

“She was talking successful a quiescent tone, again menacing.”

The teacher said she told the miss she wasn’t blessed astir the mode she was looking astatine her and asked her what she had successful her pocket.

Ms Elias said the miss replied to her with: “Do you privation to spot what’s successful my pocket? Do you?”

The teacher past said she pulled retired the weapon and said she was going to termination her.

“I thought it was going to die. I thought that was it,” said Ms Elias.

Ms Elias said the teen had "completely mislaid it" and the teen carried connected telling her that she would termination her.

“She was trying to get away, Liz and I were trying to telephone for help. I conscionable wanted to get the weapon of her.”

Ms Elias explained however Ms Hopkin shouted astatine her saying, “Fiona, go, conscionable go”, and she saw cuts and humor connected her arms erstwhile she went wrong and took disconnected her coat.

CCTV shown to the assemblage showed Ms Elias leaving, and the miss past stabbing Ms Hopkin aggregate times, earlier stabbing a pupil.

“I was truly shaken up,” Ms Elias said, “I was asking [the headteacher’s idiosyncratic assistant] to telephone the police.”

She had archetypal assistance from a unit member, and was treated by paramedics successful school, earlier being transferred to Morriston infirmary to dainty “superficial” stab wounds connected some her arms and her near hand.

Ms Elias was released from infirmary connected the aforesaid day.

The proceedings continues.