Teen said he was 'not in control' after stabbing

A teenage school boy accused of murder told a senior teacher "you know I can't control it" after fatally stabbing a fellow pupil, a jury has heard.

Harvey Willgoose,15, died after he was attacked during his lunchbreak at at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield in February.

Giving evidence at Sheffield Crown Court, assistant head teacher Morgan Davis told jurors he had seen the boy, also 15, waving the knife around and had gone to take the blade from him.

The defendant, who cannot be named due to his age, has admitted manslaughter and bringing a knife onto school premises but denies murder.

In a video statement, Mr Davis said he was about start his lunch time duty on 3 February when a group of boys told him the defendant has stabbed Harvey.

He said he ran towards the main school building, adding: "I could see to my right that Harvey was on the floor in the courtyard and there were some students around him.

"I then went into the main school building and turned right on the central corridor.

"As I did that I could see the defendant holding a knife and waving it around.

"He didn't look like he was going to drop it so I approached and put my hand out.

"And I said 'just give me the knife, just give me the knife'".

He was asked by police what he thought the boy meant when he kept repeating "you know I can't control it".

The teacher said: "He certainly has had issues with anger while he's been at our school."

Mr Davis said he had spoken to the boy earlier that day after he had returned to school following an incident the previous week when the school had gone into lockdown.

The jury has heard how, on 29 January two members of staff physically intervened in a dispute between two other students and the defendant had to be restrained as he tried to get involved.

Prosecutors said it was the defendant's claim that one boy had a knife that led the school to go into lockdown, although the police who responded never found a weapon.

Harvey was not in school that day.

Mr Davis said he discussed this incident on the morning of the killing with the defendant, and asked him: "You've not brought anything in, have you?"

He said the boy replied: "No, no, no, no, nothing like that, I'm just happy to be back in school."

Asked about Harvey, Mr Davis said: "I would describe him as a bit of a cheeky-chappie.

"He's really funny, really likeable, always got a smile on his face."

Earlier on Wednesday, teacher Eleanor Kidder told the jury how Harvey had come came to the inclusion room where she was working on the morning of 3 February.

She said he was "agitated, annoyed, heightened emotionally" and told her there had been an argument between him and the defendant.

Ms Kidder told the jury: "He told me he thought there might be an altercation happening on the day, but he'd been reassured that everything was calm."

"He said he didn't come to school to fight. So, I didn't think he came expecting that to take place."

Addressing the jury last week, Gul Nawaz Hussain KC, defending, said: "The defendant did not set out to kill or seriously hurt anyone.

"The defence say his actions that day were the end result of a long period of bullying, poor treatment and violence, things that built one upon another until he lost control and did tragically what we've all seen."

The trial continues.

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