Teacher rushes out of classroom with kitchen knife after being stabbed in head by schoolboy
Shocking video shows a UK teacher rushing out of her classroom holding a knife a 15-year-old student had just used to stab her in the head.
Footage released after the boy was sentenced Thursday shows him calmly walking into his classroom at Milford Haven Comprehensive School in Wales and then rushing back out.
History teacher Vicki Williams then runs out after him — holding the large knife while rubbing her head.
“I thought to myself, ‘I hope that isn’t a knife because I’m dead,” she told cops, according to the Sun.
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“I thought I was dying. I thought I had seen my daughter for the last time.”
Williams was left with a scalp injury, defensive wounds on her hands and a 2.8-inch gash on her back.
“I could just see blood, her hair was all over the place,” Catherine Wilcox, the school’s safeguarding lead, told the court during the boy’s attempted murder trial.
“She just looked horrific. Her skin was the color of a dead body.”
The boy, who was not identified because he was just 15 at the time of the attack, was arrested later that day — having told his grandma that “something went in my head.”
He was charged with attempted murder, but was later found not guilty.
However, he was convicted of wounding with intent and sentenced Thursday to 4 1/2 years in a youth detention facility.
and was rebuked by sentencing judge Paul Thomas.
“You could have killed her,” Judge Paul Thomas told him. “It was pure luck that she did not have far worse injuries, maybe even fatal injuries.”
It’s not known why the teen attacked Williams, but the judge said, “What I do know for certain is that you took a knife that day to school because you wanted to really hurt her with it.”
Williams said the stabbing had left her nervous around young men and unlikely to be able to return to work.
“I don’t think I could be the same teacher I was before,” she said in a victim impact statement.
“School starts in early September and at the moment I don’t think I’ll be returning.”
