3 hours ago A teacher who was stabbed successful the caput by a pupil with a ample room weapon feared she would die, a tribunal has heard.
The boy, 16, followed Vicki Williams into a schoolroom astatine Milford Haven Comprehensive School successful Pembrokeshire, and asked for assistance with his past work.
Swansea Crown Court heard helium past "lunged" astatine her with the knife, stabbed her successful the head, and pushed her backmost into a chair.
Williams told the assemblage she believed she was astir to die, thinking: "I'm dying. I'm not going to spot my girl again."
The teenager, who cannot beryllium named owed to his age, denies attempted murder, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding, but antecedently admitted possessing a knife.
On the 2nd time of the proceedings Williams told the assemblage she had taught the lad earlier that time and that helium was "absolutely fine" successful that lesson.
She said she could not callback immoderate problems with him antecedently and that she believed they got connected well.
She said it was "unusual" for him to travel to her schoolroom to clarify enactment and that helium was a "low enactment quality child", but she agreed helium whitethorn person had a "wake up call" aft mock exams.
Describing the moments earlier the alleged attack, Williams said the suspect asked her to assistance him with his past work, repeatedly asking "is that right?" arsenic helium pointed astatine his book.
"All the time, he's ruffling successful his bag, he's not looking astatine [the book]," Williams said.
"It's a maneuver to support maine talking. He's past trying to creep. It's a dilatory question to effort and get down me."
The teacher said the teen pulled "something retired of the bag", and knocked her to her chair, adding: "I look up and the weapon is point-end down.
"It felt precise heavy, similar a batch of pressure. As he's making a stabbing motion, I drawback the knife.
"The look was axenic hatred. The eyes, it was axenic hatred, they were decidedly not vacant."
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