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BBC News
02-07-2025
- BBC News
Harvey Willgoose: Teacher "sprinted" to fatal school stabbing
A teacher has described the moment he sprinted to the scene of a fatal school stabbing after hearing "knife, knife," on the staff radio D'Angeli recounted his actions while giving evidence at the trial of a 15-year-old boy accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, also 15, at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on 3 D'Angeli appeared emotional as he told jurors how he had tried to help Harvey after the attack, and said that the defendant was often "hot-headed" around other 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, has admitted a charge of manslaughter and bringing a blade onto school premises but denies murder. The teacher, who works in pastoral and wellbeing support, said he had known Harvey well because of issues around his said on the morning of the fatal attack, Harvey had visited him to let him know he was going to be coming into school told jurors that later that day while he was in the school hall he heard the words "knife, knife" on his radio and then "sprinted", passing children who were "screaming and running away".He said he then came across assistant headteacher Morgan Davis with the defendant and overheard the boy saying 'I told you, I knew it, I lost it'."It was clear he was angry, upset, aggressive, but he was complying," Mr D'Angeli later, he said he had found Harvey collapsed and dialled 999. The court heard the force of the stabbing had been enough to sever one of Harvey's ribs and mark pathologist Dr Philip Lumb told the jury: "Bone is a very hard substance, it is difficult to cut…that is a marker of the use of severe force."Harvey received CPR and underwent emergency surgery at the scene to try and save his life, but was pronounced dead within an hour. Mr Mr D'Angeli said that on 16 January, two weeks prior to the attack, he had attended the school's isolation room to find the defendant "heated and agitated".He said he heard the defendant say, "I'm going to bang him out, I'm going to knock him out" in reference to another student, Pupil teenager accused Pupil A of using a racial slur towards him and punched a wall, Mr D'Angeli said, which caused "significant damage"."A reasonable amount of force was needed to stop him continuing to punch the wall," the teacher told the jury the accused had calmed down after Pupil A left the prosecution said on Tuesday that Harvey "sided with" Pupil A in an ongoing disagreement with another boy, who was a friend of the defendant. Lockdown at school Speaking about another event in the lead-up to the fatal attack, on 29 January Mr D'Angeli said he had heard "commotion" on his said: "I heard [the defendant] screaming, '[Pupil A] thinks he's hard' and 'I'll bang him out'."He told the jury it took "a lot" of force for him to remove the defendant from the defendant had insisted Pupil A had a knife in his pocket, Mr D'Angeli said, and "remained constant" in this claim both in the heat of the moment and when he calmed said he believed the boy was genuinely concerned about the knife, and agreed he had "no reason to disbelieve him".When Mr D'Angeli returned to the scene, the teacher found a friend of the defendant, Pupil B, showing aggression towards Pupil A and also asserting he had a B had said, '[pupil A] thinks I won't do him, he thinks he's hard, he has a knife', Mr D'Angeli told the school lockdown alarm sounded and police carried out searches, but they did not find any weapons. 'Hot-headed' Mr D'Angeli knew both the defendant and Harvey well, he the morning of the stabbing, the accused had also visited Mr D'Angeli, and asked if Pupil A had come in that Nawaz Hussain KC, defending, asked whether "taking initiative" to avoid another argument was "sensible and proactive", and Mr D'Angeli agreed. The teacher added the boy had been "calm and collected" in their meeting and had not mentioned Harvey, or any other concerns, apart from Pupil told the jury the boy was "respectful, calm and would comply" in their interactions, but was "hot-headed [and] easily agitated at times in school"."Previous to these incidences, I wouldn't have described him as an angry child," he trial continues. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
BBC News
02-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Ammanford stabbing: Man appears in court over collapse of trial
A man accused of causing the collapse of a trial into a triple school stabbing has appeared in April, a 14-year-old girl, who cannot be named, was sentenced to 15 years at Swansea Crown Court for the attempted murder of two teachers and a pupil, following the second trial that began in Elias, 45, from Waunceirch, Neath Port Talbot, has been charged with the offence of refusing to answer a question relating to the qualification to serve on a appeared in Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Monday, and has been told to return on 30 June. Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and a pupil who cannot be named for legal reasons were stabbed by the teenager at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, last first trial involving the girl collapsed in October, because of what the judge described as a "great irregularity in the jury".The charge on Mr Elias falls under the Juries Act 1974, which sets out requirements as to who is eligible for jury service in Wales and England, and permits court officers to put questions to potential jurors to establish whether or not they are qualified to form part of a jury.
The Independent
14-05-2025
- The Independent
Man appears in court over school stabbing trial collapse
A man has appeared in court charged over the collapse of a school stabbing trial. Christopher Elias, 45, from Waunceirch, Neath Port Talbot, appeared before Swansea Magistrates' Court on Wednesday charged with the offence of refusing to answer a question relating to the qualification to serve on a jury. Elias was charged in relation to the collapse of the first Ammanford school stabbing trial, after a young girl attempted to murder two teachers and a fellow pupil at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in April 2024. District Judge Christopher James adjourned the case until Monday June 2, to go before Cardiff Magistrates' Court. Judge James said the delay was 'regrettable' but necessary and granted Elias unconditional bail. A 14-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to 15 years' detention last month for the attempted murder of Fiona Elias, Liz Hopkin and the pupil at the school following a retrial. The first trial collapsed in October last year, with the judge saying there had been a 'great irregularity in the jury'.
