By Staff Reporter

Last updated 17:19, Wednesday, 23 July 2008

A teenage schoolgirl who stabbed a fellow pupil in the thigh was egged on by fellow students who filmed the shocking ordeal on mobile phone.

The 13-year-old from Carlisle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took a craft knife out of a classroom at the north Cumbria school and attacked a male pupil during a playground row.

The video which was played to magistrates in Carlisle today shows the girl slapping the boy, 15, who is attempting to push her away, on the side of the face before walking away from the fight and returning with the blade in her hand.

Fellow pupils can be heard shouting “She is going to get the knife” with one exclaiming: “This is going on YouTube”.

The girl is then wrestled to the ground by her victim in a bid to grab the knife.

He was stabbed in the leg and sustained cut hands from trying to grab the weapon.

The girl was placed on a 12-month referral order and was ordered to pay £200 in compensation to the injured boy by magistrates after admitting a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and another of possessing a knife on school premises. She will now be required to attend meetings with Children’s Services and agree a contract of terms to follow.

Magistrates described the offences as “very serious” and warned her that she could have faced a custodial sentence had it not been for her age.

Rebecca McGregor, prosecuting, said that the male victim had previously gone out with the girl’s friend and had her mobile phone.

The argument began with her confronting him about the phone.

Miss McGregor added: “The video shows her walking away towards her blazer which is in another area and then coming back with the small knife.

“She is then heard saying to the boy ‘do you think you are hard’.”

The boy required two butterfly stitches for a small puncture wound to his upper left thigh following the incident.

Defence solicitor Claire Kirkpatrick said that the girl, who was described by teachers as extremely bright and a grade-A student, was “extremely remorseful”.

She added that the knife, which should have been replaced it in a tray at the end of class was removed accidentally.

Magistrates ordered that the knife be forfeited.