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<\/p>\nA masked teenager who brought terror to a school after stabbing a teacher has been jailed for 14 months.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, attacked Jamie Sansom\u00a0with a six-inch knife at Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
Before confronting the maths teacher, he told a friend to \u2018wait until period one\u2019 and dial 999 to inform police a member of staff had been stabbed.<\/p>\n
Wearing a snood and a hooded top, he then knocked on the door of the classroom where Mr Sansom was teaching and said: \u2018Come here.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Maths teacher Jamie Samsom, pictured, was stabbed by a 15-year-old boy who cannot be named for legal reasons at\u00a0Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire on July 10<\/p>\n
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Mr Sansom, pictured, suffered a puncture wound to the stomach and was released from hospital after treatment<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Christine Hart said: \u2018[The boy] said \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d and moved towards him in a stabbing motion. Mr Sansom felt the knife and asked him, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
The school was put into lockdown for four hours after the attack, with teachers barricading terrified pupils in classrooms by putting wardrobes across doors. Some children cowered in cupboards.<\/p>\n
Desperate parents rushed to the school while armed police with trained dogs made their way through the building, although it later emerged the suspect had fled.<\/p>\n
When the boy\u2019s mother managed to contact him and asked him to give himself up, he told her: \u2018Goodbye forever but remember I always loved you guys.\u2019<\/p>\n
He was arrested two hours after the stabbing by firearms officers in Stoke Orchard, six miles away.<\/p>\n
Mr Sansom, 27,\u00a0 suffered a puncture wound to the stomach and was taken to an office where an ambulance was called. He was treated at hospital but released later the same day.<\/p>\n
The boy, who has never given a motive for the attack, admitted attempting to unlawfully and maliciously wound and possessing a bladed article.<\/p>\n
Imposing a 14-month detention and training order yesterday, District Judge Lynne Matthews told him: \u2018You were not acting impulsively. You took the face covering to school, you took the knife to school.<\/p>\n
\u2018You told a friend what was going to happen and you told the emergency services. Nothing strikes me about it that was impulsive.\u2019<\/p>\n
Half the sentence will be served at a youth detention centre, with the rest at home where he will be monitored by a youth offending team, Bristol Magistrates Court was told.<\/p>\n
Two nearby schools were also locked down during the attack just after 9am on July 10, amid initial concerns it was terror-related.<\/p>\n
Emotional parents described how their children had been \u2018really, really terrified\u2019 and had been left traumatised by the experience.<\/p>\n
Sarah Penny, who has a child at the school, said at the time: \u2018They had to put a small cabinet across the door to keep them safe.<\/p>\n
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Tewkesbury Academy in Gloucestershire, pictured, was put into lockdown for four hours following the incident on July 10<\/p>\n
\u2018One of my son\u2019s friends sent a message to his dad saying they were in lockdown and to come and get him because he didn\u2019t want to die.\u2019<\/p>\n
A text message sent from another pupil to a parent said: \u2018We are stuck in a classroom. Mum I\u2019m really scared. They had guns, they had armed police and dogs were out.’<\/p>\n
Hundreds of parents gathered at the school took their children home when they were allowed out from 1.30pm.<\/p>\n
Cardiff University graduate Mr Sansom, a maths teacher who was due to leave for another job at the end of the academic year, was described as \u2018wonderful\u2019 and \u2018one of the best teachers\u2019 at the 1,600-pupil mixed secondary, which was rated as \u2018requires improvement\u2019 at its last Ofsted inspection.<\/p>\n
In a victim impact statement read in court, he said: \u2018I never expected this to happen in a school, let alone to me. I thought I might have been in some sort of soap opera. I didn\u2019t have time to react.\u2019<\/p>\n
He added he holds \u2018no ill will towards [the student] for what happened\u2019, adding: \u2018I hope he gets the support he needs.\u2019<\/p>\n
James McKella, defending the teenager whose parents were in court, said he had poor mental health at the time and was experiencing suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n