A teenager grabbed a younger girl and ran when she saw a fellow pupil lifeless and covered in blood after he had been stabbed in school, a jury has heard.<\/p>\n
Sheffield Crown Court heard the student describe how she ran at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield, when she saw a fellow pupil with a knife and was scared he could \u201cturn around and do it to someone else\u201d.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, a jury was played a pre-recorded police interview with the girl at the trial of a 15-year-old boy accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, also 15, at the school on February 3.<\/p>\n
In the recording, the teenager said she was inside the school when she heard a commotion outside, thought a fight was going on and, \u201clike normal teenagers\u201d, she and her friend went to see what was happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard everyone screaming and shouting,\u201d she told the officers.<\/p>\n
Harvey Willgoose was stabbed during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield (Jacob King\/PA)<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI just saw Harvey lifeless, covered in blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
And she said: \u201cI saw the blood on the shirt. The shirt was covered.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl told the police: \u201cHe was pale, lifeless.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the defendant was holding a knife and shouting: \u201cCome on, come on, what now?\u201d<\/p>\n
The teenager said the defendant, who was about 2m (6ft) away from her, seemed \u201creally mad\u201d and \u201cI knew that he\u2019d done it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Asked how she was feeling at this point, the witness said: \u201cI was really scared.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I was thinking \u2018if he\u2019s able to do that to him while he was mad, he could just turn around and do it to someone else\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
She explained how she became concerned for a younger pupil, saying she told her: \u201cRun, he\u2019s got a knife, he\u2019s just stabbed somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girl said she \u201cgrabbed\u201d the younger girl and ran.<\/p>\n
Jurors have seen CCTV footage of Harvey being stabbed twice in a courtyard at the school at the start of the lunch break on February 3.<\/p>\n
The jurors have been told that the defendant, who cannot be named, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder.<\/p>\n
He has also admitted possession of a knife on school premises.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the teenage girl was asked about an incident five days before the fatal stabbing, when the school went into lockdown.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, two members of staff physically intervened in a dispute between two other students and the defendant had to be restrained as he tried to get involved.<\/p>\n
I think (the defendant) got mad and then he pulled out his knife and then stabbed him in the chestWitness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The jury has been told it was the defendant\u2019s claim that one boy had a knife that led the school to go into lockdown, although the police who responded never found a weapon.<\/p>\n
Harvey was not in school that day.<\/p>\n
The girl told the court how she discussed this incident with the defendant through voice notes on Snapchat on the day it happened \u2013 January 29.<\/p>\n
She said the boy told her that he punched a teacher, sending her a video of his injured knuckles, and said he pulled out a knife during the incident.<\/p>\n
Another All Saints pupil said in his video interview that the defendant told him he had a knife in his pocket as they walked along a corridor, moments before the stabbing.<\/p>\n
The boy said: \u201cI told him to \u2018give it to me before you do something stupid\u2019, but he didn\u2019t listen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The witness told the officer: \u201cWe went outside and then (the defendant) went to Harvey and Harvey went to (the defendant) and they were pressing each other and arguing with each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think (the defendant) got mad and then he pulled out his knife and then stabbed him in the chest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing the jury last week, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, defending, said: \u201c(The defendant) did not set out to kill or seriously hurt anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defence say (the defendant\u2019s) actions that day were the end result of a long period of bullying, poor treatment and violence, things that built one upon another until he lost control and did tragically what we\u2019ve all seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager grabbed a younger girl and ran when she saw a fellow pupil lifeless and covered in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114821502639159973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}