This is the moment a teacher rushed out of a classroom clutching her bloodstained head after being stabbed by a schoolboy who had asked her to check his homework.
Vicki Williams, a history teacher at a secondary school in Pembrokeshire, thought she was ‘going to die’ when she was attacked ‘out of nowhere’ by a 15-year-old pupil.
The boy, now 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, waited until the end of the day when Ms Williams was alone to pull out an eight-inch-bladed kitchen knife.
He was found guilty of wounding with intent after being acquitted of attempted murder by a jury at Swansea Crown Court and was sentenced today to four-and-a-half years in youth detention.
Footage has now revealed the immediate aftermath of the attack – shortly before pupils at Milford Haven School were placed into lockdown.
The boy, wearing a black jacket and rucksack, can be seen running across the corridor and through the door while another teacher appears.
Ms Williams then exits the classroom in a daze, as she holds onto her head with the weapon in her hand.
She inspects her hands and is accompanied by the other teacher as they make their way through the door, away from the scene of the crime.
The boy wears a blue top and black jacket and rucksack as he walks towards the classroom before asking for help with his homework
In the aftermath of the attack, Ms Williams exits the classroom in a daze, as she holds onto her head with the weapon in her hand
She inspects her hands and is accompanied by the other teacher as they make their way through the door, away from the scene of the crime
Ms Williams later said she had seen ‘pure hatred’ in the boy’s eyes after he thrust the kitchen knife towards her and pushed her into a chair before fleeing.
She watched the sentencing hearing from an online link but in a victim impact statement said she had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder – adding she did not know if she would be able to return to teaching.
Passing sentence, Judge Paul Thomas KC said it was ‘pure luck’ Ms Williams had not been seriously injured or worse.
He said the boy had an undisclosed issue with the history teacher and bore her ‘considerable ill will’.
‘I don’t know why you attacked Ms Williams with that knife, you never told anybody why you did it,’ the judge said. ‘I think it may have been that in some way she had upset you, but I don’t know for certain why.
‘What I do know for certain is that you took a knife that day to school because you wanted to really hurt her with it.’
In a police interview, Ms Williams said the boy came to her classroom ‘cool and collected’ at the end of the school day to ask if his ‘work was correct’.
She said that ‘confused’ her because he had ‘never seemed bothered before’.
Vicki Williams (pictured), a history teacher at a secondary school in Pembrokeshire, thought she was ‘going to die’ when she was attacked ‘out of nowhere’ by a 15-year-old pupil
The teenager waited until the teacher was alone in a classroom before pulling the kitchen knife from his rucksack. Pictured: Police outside the school in Pembrokeshire
Ms Williams said ‘alarm bells’ rang in her head when he shut the classroom door, saying it was cold. She said he was trying to ‘keep her talking’ while he tried ‘to find something in his bag’.
‘I ask him again, “Are you sure you’re alright?”. And then he pulls [the knife] out of the bag and lunges at me,’ she said.
Jurors heard the boy pulled a large kitchen knife from his bag and struck her in the head before a ‘violent struggle’ ensued during which Ms Williams tried to take the weapon from him.
She said the attack came ‘out of nowhere’.
The boy then ran from the school while the teacher was taken to hospital in Haverfordwest, where she was treated for a wound to her scalp, scratches on her back and minor cuts on her hands.
Christopher Rees KC, prosecuting, said: ‘He deliberately brought a knife into school in order to attack Vicki Williams.
‘It was a carefully planned attack. He waited until Vicki Williams was alone in her classroom after the school day had concluded.’
During the trial Matthew Roberts KC, defending, suggested the pupil had taken the knife to school to ‘show off’ to other boys. The defendant previously pleaded guilty to possessing a kitchen knife on school grounds.
The judge said the teenager had never shown any remorse for what he had done, adding: ‘The courts have to try to keep teachers safe from attacks on them by pupils.
‘This is the second case of a school pupil stabbing a teacher in school in the same Welsh county in the last couple of years.
‘I want anyone who is ever thinking in the future of doing the same to know what will happen to them if they do.
‘They will spend a lot of their teenage years and perhaps beyond unable to go out with their friends, go and do what they want, go on holidays, have fun, be with their parents, follow their hobbies and do what the rest of their friends are doing.
‘That is what happens and that is what’s going to happen to you – the people who attack teachers with knives.’
Jonathan Pritchard, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said after today’s sentencing hearing: ‘This was a shocking display of violence on a teacher doing their job.
‘Knives cause terrible injuries which can often end in fatal consequences.
‘The teacher showed great courage in what must have been a terrifying incident.
‘The strong evidence presented by the CPS resulted in these convictions which we hope provide some comfort to the victim of this awful attack.’
