John Jefferson
Background: Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, Ammanford, Wales (Sky News/YouTube). Inset, left to right: Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin (Dyfed-Powys police).
A teenager accused of stabbing multiple teachers and a student during school allegedly used a childish colloquialism to describe her violent behavior.
The attempted murder trial of the 14-year-old girl, who was 13 years old at the time of the alleged attack, is underway at a court in south Wales. According to police, her attack occurred at the Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Wales, in the late morning of April 24. Police were called at around 11:20 a.m. that day, with three people — two teachers and a pupil — being taken to the hospital with stab wounds.
The girl, who has not been publicly identified, allegedly attacked teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, as well as a student whose name has not been publicly released.
In testimony on Monday, prosecutors reportedly said that the girl treated the violence as little more than a harmless error.
“I stabbed her — oopsies,” she reportedly said after knifing the student, prosecutor William Hughes KC told jurors in the courtroom in Wales.
Elias, the deputy head of the school, had apparently noticed the girl had “sinister eyes” and was playing with something in her pockets, Hughes said.
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“Do you want to see what’s in my pocket?” the girl allegedly asked before drawing her knife and attacking Elias.
“I’m going to kill you. I’m going to f—ing kill you,” she allegedly said as she swung the knife. According to The Guardian, she dropped the knife but ultimately picked it back up and used it to stab a second teacher, Liz Hopkin.
She then reportedly yelled the same thing — “I’m going to f—ing kill you” — to the other student before running at her with the blade and stabbing her.
After the violence, the girl is alleged to have seemed nonchalant.
“That’s one way to be a celebrity,” she allegedly said while sitting in a police car, according to The Guardian.
“I’m pretty sure this is going to be on the news so more eyes are going to be looking at me,” she also reportedly said to officers.
The accused allegedly used a “fishing multi-tool” owned by her father, who did not give her permission to bring the blade to school that day, Sky News reported.
Hughes, the prosecutor, told jurors that he believes the stab wounds were “inflicted deliberately and with the intent to kill.”
Hopkin was wounded in her leg, chest, shoulder and neck, while Elias’s arm and hand were wounded, The Guardian report said. The student who was attacked was injured on her arm and their injuries were not life-threatening, police noted.
Ammanford is located in Wales in the western part of the UK, some 200 miles west of London.
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