TV show explores teacher Ann’s murder

A TRUE crime documentary series is set to give TV viewers a fresh insight into the events surrounding the death of Leeds teacher Ann Maguire.

Britain’s Deadliest Kids begins on Saturday night, on digital channel Quest Red, with its opening episode exploring Mrs Maguire’s murder by 15-yearold pupil Will Cornick during a lesson at Halton Moor’s Corpus Christi Catholic College in 2014.

The programme hears from the prosecution and defence barristers at Cornick’s trial as well as Dr John Kent, a consultant forensic psychiatrist, who assessed the teenager after his arrest.

It also includes an interview with Zacc Capitano, who attended Corpus Christi at the same time as Cornick.

Zacc was not in the lesson where the stabbing took place but, recalling how word began to spread that something terrible had happened, he tells the programme: “From my English class I could see the front yard of the school and an ambulance response car turned up and then a police car turned up.

“I asked the teacher what was happening and the teacher said: ‘Oh, I don’t know, nothing’.

“Then one of our other teachers came through and said our lesson would be extended because there had been an incident with a teacher and I said to my teacher: ‘I bet it’s Will Cornick’. She looked at me in shock as if to wonder how I knew.”

Zacc adds: “Will always said that he didn’t like [Mrs Maguire] but we always thought it was just the normal dislike for a teacher – there were teachers that I didn’t like, there were teachers other pupils didn’t like, but we would never have dreamed of doing what Will did.”

Cornick pleaded guilty to murder at Leeds Crown Court and was handed a life sentence.