A devoted teacher was stabbed to death in front of her horrified class yesterday by a pupil said to have a grudge
against her. Children screamed as the 15-year-old boy calmly walked
up behind Ann Maguire during a Spanish lesson in front of 30 pupils and repeatedly stabbed her in the neck and back with a kitchen knife. It is thought to be the first time a pupil has killed a teacher in a British classroom. The
fatal stabbing took place at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, West
Yorkshire. As Mrs Maguire was being attacked, a fellow teacher raced
in and grabbed the boy. Other staff helped to detain him until police arrived.
The middle class pupil, who was described as an ‘outcast’, has a picture of the Grim Reaper on his Facebook page. Mrs Maguire, 61, was taken to hospital by paramedics after the attack, at around 11.45am. But she was declared dead on arrival.
Married with two grown-up daughters, Mrs Maguire was a caring Spanish teacher known as ‘the mother of her
school’. Fellow pupils said she had given the boy a detention last week and he told other pupils she was ‘always getting at
him’.
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