{"id":520224,"date":"2025-10-22T18:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:13:32","slug":"girl-14-who-stabbed-birmingham-classmate-in-neck-at-school-cleared-of-attempt-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/520224\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 14, who stabbed Birmingham classmate in neck at school cleared of attempt murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trial heard the defendant, who was 13 at the time, had been bullied with homophobic abuse\"BirminghamBirmingham Crown Court(Image: Nick Wilkinson\/Birmingham Live)<\/p>\n

A 14-year-girl who stabbed another female pupil in the neck at a Birmingham<\/a> school has been cleared of attempted murder but found guilty of wounding with intent.<\/p>\n

She attacked the victim, who was the same age, with a pocket knife in the lobby shouting \u2018die b****\u2019, a trial at Birmingham Crown Court<\/a> was told.<\/p>\n

The victim suffered three cuts to her neck but survived after another pupil split the pair and staff intervened.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Mum of 13-year-old girl who stabbed pupil claims her daughter was being bullied<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The trial heard the defendant had been \u2018bullied\u2019 and had received homophobic insults from the victim and her friends, due to being in a relationship with another girl.<\/p>\n

She set up a TikTok \u2018hate\u2019 page against the victim the day before she stabbed her.<\/p>\n

The defendant, who was 13 at the time, had already admitted unlawful wounding and having an offensive weapon on school premises.<\/p>\n

The jury deliberated for more than ten hours before reaching a majority guilty verdict of 11 to one on wounding with intent this afternoon, Wednesday, October 22.<\/p>\n

She will be sentenced at a later date, likely next year.<\/p>\n

Mrs Justice Christina Lambert KC said she would be ‘very reluctant’ to pass sentence without psychiatric evidence about the defendant. The girl heard the verdict via a video link from a secure unit, due to not ‘feeling 100 per cent’, the judge said.<\/p>\n

For legal reasons she, the victim and the school cannot be identified.<\/p>\n

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The defendant did not give evidence but her mum told the trial her attendance plummeted and it became a \u2018nightmare\u2019 to get her into school.<\/p>\n

She became concerned her daughter was being bullied but said the teen would not disclose to her what was going on, fearing she would be called a \u2018snitch\u2019.<\/p>\n

The defendant\u2019s older sister described an incident months before the stabbing. She said a group of girls, including the victim, shouted at the defendant calling her a \u2018b****\u2019 and using a homophobic insult.<\/p>\n

The victim, giving evidence, denied the incident but admitted she had told the defendant to \u2018kill yourself\u2019 in a Snapchat group, which included mutual friends.<\/p>\n

She saidit was something the defendant had also said to her, as well as calling her \u2018fat\u2019.<\/p>\n

The victim also accepted telling a friend, who was the defendant\u2019s female partner, \u2018you can do better, just leave her\u2019, alleging the defendant had \u2018cheated\u2019.<\/p>\n

The court heard the defendant had made a number of social media posts expressing suicidal themes. School staff regularly called her parents and attended her home due to her poor attendance.<\/p>\n

She was also put on a \u2018behaviour contract\u2019 days before the stabbing.<\/p>\n

Recalling the morning of the attack, a school staff member said she heard the defendant shouting \u2018I hate you\u2019 and possibly \u2018I want to kill you\u2019 towards the victim outside her office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trial heard the defendant, who was 13 at the time, had been bullied with homophobic abuseBirmingham Crown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10386,748,30,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-520224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-crown-court","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115419179911980064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520224","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=520224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}