Boy who stabbed Milford Haven teacher said ‘something went’ in his head – court

The grandmother of a 16-year-old boy who stabbed a teacher at a school in Pembrokeshire said he told her after the incident that “something went” in his head.

Emergency services were called to Milford Haven Comprehensive School on 5 February to reports of the assault of a teacher by a pupil brandishing a weapon.

Vicki Williams, a teacher at the school, previously told the court that the boy, who was 15 at the time, followed her into a classroom to ask her for help with his history work, before he “lunged” at her with a knife and stabbed her in the head.

The boy, who cannot be named due to his age, denies attempted murder, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding.

During the fourth day of the trial at Swansea Crown Court, the jury heard a written statement by the boy’s grandmother, who also cannot be identified to protect his identity.

She said the boy was “a quiet boy” who would often come to her house when her daughter, the boy’s mother, was working.

The grandmother said the last time she saw her grandson before the incident was when he came to her house a few days before it on 3 February.

She said she received a call from her daughter at 15:30 GMT on 5 February,

“She sounded terrible,” the boy’s grandmother said of her daughter, “so upset”.

“She asked me if I had seen him [the boy] and said ‘something has happened at the school’.”

The grandmother described that within five minutes of receiving the phone call from her daughter he walked through her door.

“He walked straight to the stairs and sat on the stairs,” she said.

The grandmother said she called him into the kitchen, but that he remained seated on the stairs.

When she approached him, she said he told her, “something went in my head, nan”.

“He was crying”, she said, “He had his head hung low in his hands… Ten minutes later, the police came to my house and arrested him.”

Dr Rouse, a forensic pathologist, told the court that the teacher Williams had “superficial hand wounds” as defensive injuries and were “typical” of knife injuries.

He told the court Williams had a 1cm ‘”linear incised wound” to the top of her head.

“Does that mean it’s caused by a sharp blade?,” asked prosecutor Christopher Rees KC.

“Yes,” he answered.

Dr Rouse also described a 3cm graze or “linear abrasion” to Williams’ left lower back, and a 7cm mark on her right lower back of the “same sort of orientation”.

“[It’s] a scratch mark that’s gone across in a straight line,” the pathologist explained, “a continuation of the same mark”.

The trial continues.