15-year-old sentenced to 14 months in youth detention for stabbing teacher in Tewkesbury school corridor

A 15-year-old boy’s been told he’ll spend 14 months in youth detention, for stabbing a teacher at a school in Tewkesbury.

He admitted to the attack on Jamie Sansom at Tewkesbury Academy in July, earlier this month – and was handed his sentence today.

Imposing a 14-month detention and training order, District Judge Lynne Matthews told him: “You were not acting impulsively.

“You took the face covering to school, you took the knife to school.

“You told a friend what was going to happen and you told the emergency services.

“Nothing strikes me about it that was impulsive.”

Mr Samson’s said to be ‘recovering well.’

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