LONDON: Police in London on Thursday (Feb 12) mentioned that they had charged a 13-year-old boy with two counts of tried homicide after pupils had been stabbed at a faculty within the capital.
The boy, who can’t be recognized because of his age, additionally faces prices of possessing a knife on faculty premises and spraying insect spray within the face of a 3rd sufferer.
The stabbing victims, two boys aged 12 and 13, remained in hospital, London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned in an announcement.
Each had been described as being in a “secure” situation following the assault at Kingsbury Excessive Faculty in northwest London at lunchtime on Tuesday.
Attributable to circumstances surrounding the incident, the investigation was handed to counter terrorism officers “though at the moment, it has not been declared as a terrorist incident”, mentioned senior police officer Helen Flanagan of Counter Terrorism Policing London.
“These are extraordinarily severe prices in opposition to a younger boy, and we proceed to assist the victims and their households, in addition to the broader faculty neighborhood following this surprising incident,” she mentioned.
The UK, and London particularly, has lengthy grappled with teenage violence and using knives, whereas violence inside faculties has been rising nationwide, in response to unions representing lecturers.
An investigation involving counter terrorism officers alongside Met detectives was “ongoing”, Flanagan added.
The 13-year-old suspect was arrested within the native space a number of hours after the incident.
He’ll seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom in central London on Thursday.
