Ammanford: Teacher ‘would be dead’ without help during stabbing

Ms Elias said she left the building, but was then approached by the teenager in a corridor, and then again outside, as she spoke to her colleague Ms Hopkin.

“[She looked] very distant, very menacing, like she was going to do something to me. It was making me feel uncomfortable. She can be like that though,” the teacher said.

Ms Elias said she asked the girl to “stop looking at [her] in that way” and then questioned what was in her pocket.

“The tone was sinister,” Ms Elias said, “She asked me, ‘do you want to see what’s in my pocket? Do you?’.”

“I had a feeling she was going to do something to me. It’s a bit ironic really, if looks could kill.”

The teacher said the girl took out a blade from her pocket before attacking her and shouting: “I’m going to kill you”.

“When I saw the knife, and when she started stabbing me, I thought ‘I’m going to die. I thought that was it’.”

The teenager, the court heard, had “completely lost it”.

“Liz and I were calling for help,” Ms Elias said, “I just wanted to get the knife off her”.

She said that Ms Hopkin told her to leave, as they both tried to restrain the teenager.

“I was shaking. There was blood. My arms were just stinging in pain.”

She said she was given first aid in school for stab wounds on her arms and hand, and was then taken to Morriston Hospital.

The trial continues.