Boy, 7, held a knife to girl’s throat
TERROR IN SCHOOL DINNER HALL
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A BOY of seven held a knife to a girl’s throat in a school dinner hall in a row over pizza.
He told his terrified victim: “I’ll do it, I will. I’ll do it.’’
The girl, also seven, is said to have told him not to eat a slice of pizza which had fallen off his plate.
She threatened to tell a teacher that he had picked up food off the floor.
The boy allegedly leapt from his seat and grabbed a knife.
The girl was found by a teacher in floods of tears at The Meads Primary
School in Luton. Her 36-year-old mum dashed in to meet with the school’s head.
After discovering the boy had been suspended for the rest of the day – only about an hour – she called police.
The mum of two said: “It’s an horrendous phone call to receive,that your child has been threatened by another pupil with a knife at school.
“I was mortified to learn that a boy of age seven would even think of using a knife for that purpose. My daughter is having nightmares about the incident.
“The knives will still be in the school lunch hall but will he have changed?
“I have lost faith in the school’s ability to act strongly when its pupils do wrong.
“I’m terrified for my daughter who has to go back to school knowing he’ll still be there.
“What if next time he doesn’t use a butter knife but scissors lying around in the classroom?’’ A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said the force had been contacted over a row between two children at a primary school.
But officers have not the school.
Primary school head Richard Jenkins said: “Staff immediately dealt with the matter in line with our behavioural policy and both children are now back in school.’’ visited