One arrested and three injured after reports of school stabbing – BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-wales-68890153

by topotaul

8 comments

  1. This is just awful. I hope the kids are ok and can recover. It mentions air ambulance’s, which implies quite serious injuries.

  2. I’m from Ammanford. It’s such a small town and seeing this today has made my heart drop. Both of my parents work in the school and I’ve been on edge all day. Can’t stop thinking about it

  3. >”We are working closely with the school and Carmarthenshire County Council. We are aware that there is footage of the incident currently circulating on social media.

    >”We would ask that this is removed to avoid contempt of court and distress to those affected. We would ask the people do not speculate while there is a police investigation ongoing.”

    Not that Reddit care about the law, but still.

  4. Low income area, low mental health as the nhs in wales outside of Cardiff is nonexistent. Local mp is in a safe seat so doesn’t give a crap.

    I’m glad I left the area but I feel sorry for those stuck there. 

  5. There is a kid in my daughter’s primary school class who has absolutely zero regulation over his emotion. His parents apparently just leave YouTube to parent him.

    He comes in to class having watch all manner of warped and weird stuff and tells the other 7 year olds about it. We’re talking stuff like the saw films, wars and all kinds of sexist stuff – that a 7 year old simply isn’t emotionally able to process.

    He’s hit other pupils over the head with rocks; was banned from school swimming lessons after threatening to drown another child and can often be seen wandering the streets alone with a nerf gun, shooting at cats.

    The school are trying to deal with it, but seemingly get nothing back from the parents. This is in a fairly well off area too; it’s not like the parents are on the poverty line and have to leave him to go to work and can’t afford child care (they’re both fairly senior police officers) – not that any of that is a valid excuse, of course.

    But I can easily see this kid going onto do something stupid, running a whole bunch of lives including his own. And whilst it would totally be his fault, i’ld have sympathy. He’s been failed by his parents; failed by society; the school, for all the will in the world can only do so much and maybe in a perfect world social services would have stepped in. But I doubt they have the money.

    No idea what’s happened in this particular case, but for the first time I can see how its possible for kids to get like that.

  8. No need to panic. UK has never been safer. All stats funded by reputable institutions are telling me just that.

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