Schoolboy, 10, arrested after 'stabbing teacher in the chest with a pencil'

Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:55 PM on 25th December 2009

The injured teacher was treated at the Blackpool Victoria Hospital in Lancashire

A ten-year-old was arrested after a teacher was stabbed in the chest with a pencil during a class.

The boy reportedly grabbed the pencil from the teacher's jacket pocket and then plunged it through the man's shirt puncturing his chest near his heart.

The stunned primary school teacher then pulled out the pencil himself as colleagues called 999 and paramedics took him bleeding from the wound to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Lancashire, for emergency treatment.

Police were also called to the school and took the youngster - described as being of very slight build - into custody.

The boy who has just reached the age when he can face the justice system is understood to have admitted what he has done.

A police spokesman said : 'The teacher was very lucky, another inch and the sharp pencil could have punctured one of his main arteries.'

The incident is said to have occurred as the teacher tried to persuade the boy to go into the school's quiet room used when a pupil gets unruly and needs time cool down.

The boy refused and claims the teacher tried to grapple him into the room and it was then he allegedly grabbed the pencil and stabbed him with it.

There had reportedly been an earlier incident in which the same boy kicked the same teacher.

Lancashire Police have confirmed the boy was arrested and questioned by officers about the incident.

If it is decided whether to report him for a wounding offence, a Youth Court is likely to impose a referral order on him as he has not been in trouble before.

Such an order means he could go under the guidance of a team of specialist youth workers and may have to write a letter of apology to the teacher.

Blackpool Education Authority said the boy had been excluded from the school as a result of the incident and would receive home tuition in the meantime.

The teacher is recovering from the attack over the festive break and is expected back in the classroom in the New Year,

 

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