A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to wounding with intent following the stabbing of a school welfare officer.
The teenage pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitting using a blade to stab Joy Simon.
During a 50-minute hearing at Hull Crown Court, she wore an oversized olive-green parker coat with her hair tightly scraped back into a ponytail as she waved to her parents sat in the public gallery.
The 16-year-old schoolgirl admitted stabbing welfare officer Joy Simon at Winterton Community Academy in Lincolnshire
The teenage pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitting using a blade to stab Joy Simon, who suffered two punctured lungs in the attack
Mrs Simon, 61, suffered two punctured lungs after being stabbed by the defendant at Winterton Community Academy in Winterton, Lincolnshire, on Monday, September 25.
The teenager pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause GBH under section 18 and carrying without good reason a blade or sharply pointed article on school premises.
A charge of attempted murder was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service for the less serious wounding charge, prosecutor Richard Wright, QC, told the court.
The court heard probation and psychiatric reports would be compiled within the next six weeks to determine the sentencing outcome.
Judge Jeremy Richardson, QC, told the girl: ‘I tell you expressly that all sentencing options remain open, I have not in any way shape or form made up my mind the correct sentence to be passed.
‘You will remain in custody and will appear before me for sentencing in the latter part of January.’
No application was made for bail and the teenager will be sentenced in January 2018 on a date yet to be fixed.
The girl, who waved to her parents during a hearing at Hull Crown Court, will be sentenced for the attack in January
Shortly after the attack, parents were sent this text by the school and rushed to pick their children up
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