A teenage girl has admitted that she had carried a knife almost every day since primary school before she stabbed two teachers and student at a school in Wales.
Teachers Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and a pupil were rushed to hospital on April 24 after being stabbed at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.
The 14-year-old defendant pleaded guilty to three counts of wounding with intent and a further count of possession of a bladed article on a school premises.
She appeared at Swansea Crown Court yesterday for the fifth day of the trial.
A teenage girl has admitted that she had carried a knife almost every day since primary school before she stabbed two teachers and student at a school in WalesPAThe court heard that she had carried a knife to school nearly every day since she was in “year three or four”.
According to the teenager, she felt “scared and worried” and used knives to self-harm.
At the beginning of the academic year, the schoolgirl was caught with a knife by Elias, the court heard.
She said she had forgotten she was carrying the knife after using it to carve her name in a tree.
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She was excluded from school and her father would then search her bag every day for knives.
However, the defendant was understood to have hidden a knife in her pocket.
The girl’s father previously admitted that he had not checked her bag for a knife on the day of the stabbing.
She told Caroline Rees KC, defending, that she felt “terrible” about what had happened and that she would “do anything to go back”.
The court heard that she had carried a knife to school nearly every day since she was in ‘year three or four’
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The girl said: “It doesn’t feel like I did it, to be honest. (I feel) terrible, guilty.”
She added that she did not intend to kill any of the people who were injured and she could not remember parts of the incident.
The trial continues.