Girl, 14, who stabbed Birmingham classmate in neck at school cleared of attempt murder.

A trial heard that the defendant, who was 13 at the time, had been bullied with homophobic remarks.

A 14-year-old girl who stabbed another female student in the neck at a Birmingham school has been cleared of attempted murder but convicted of wounding with intent.

She stabbed the victim, who was the same age, with a pocket knife in the lobby while saying ‘death b****’, according to a Birmingham Crown Court trial.

The victim received three slashes to her neck but survived after another student separated the two and staff intervened.

According to the trial, the defendant was ‘bullied’ and subjected to homophobic remarks from the victim and her companions because she was in a relationship with another female. She created a TikTok ‘hate’ page for the victim the day before she stabbed her.

The defendant, who was 13 at the time, had already pleaded to illegal wounding and possessing an offensive weapon on school grounds.

The jury debated for more than ten hours before returning an 11-to-one guilty verdict on wounding with intent this afternoon, Wednesday, October 22. She will be sentenced at a later date, probably next year.

Mrs Justice Christina Lambert KC stated that she would be’very reluctant’ to pass sentence without psychological evidence about the offender.

The youngster received the verdict via video link from a secure unit because she was not ‘feeling 100 percent’, according to the court.

For legal reasons, she, the victim, and the school cannot be named. The defendant did not testify, but her mother told the trial that her attendance had fallen and that getting her into school had become a ‘nightmare’.

She became afraid her daughter was being bullied, but the girl refused to tell her what was going on, fearing she would be labelled a’snitch’. The defendant’s older sister detailed an incident that occurred some months prior to the attack.

She claimed that a group of girls, including the victim, yelled at the defendant, calling her a ‘b****’ and other homophobic slurs.

The victim, who gave evidence, denied the encounter but admitting to telling the defendant to ‘kill yourself’ in a Snapchat group with mutual friends.

She said that the defendant had also stated this to her, in addition to calling her ‘fat’.

The victim also admitted to telling a friend, who was the defendant’s female girlfriend, ‘you can do better, just leave her’, claiming the defendant had ‘cheated’.

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