Boy, 15, charged with attempted murder after school stabbing
By Sky News, March 13, 2026A teenage boy has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing at a school near Norwich.
Police were called to Thorpe St Andrew School on Laundry Lane at 10.24am on Wednesday following reports that a teenage girl had been stabbed.
Pupils were put into lockdown in their classrooms after the incident. The victim was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested and taken to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre for questioning.
He has now been charged with attempted murder and possession of a knife on a school premises, Norfolk Police said.
The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, has been remanded into custody and is due to appear at Norwich Youth Court on Friday.
Dunblane school shooting in 1996
Thirty years after the Dunblane school massacre, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said the tragedy “haunts many of us still to this day”.
On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in central Scotland, before shooting himself.
Mr Alexander said he has “deep admiration” for parents affected by the tragedy who campaigned for tighter gun controls.
A further 15 people, most of them children, were wounded in what remains Britain’s deadliest mass shooting.
Mr Alexander said those who remember that day “look back with horror at what unfolded”, recalling images “of parents running to the school gate, the horror of what then emerged”.
It was, he said “unprecedented and haunts many of us still to this day”.
Amid widespread outrage, a consensus that a ban on handguns was needed offered “one small glimmer of light in the enveloping darkness”, Mr Douglas said.
In 1997, those weapons were outlawed by John Major’s Conservative government and the ban was extended to include all cartridge ammunition handguns by Tony Blair’s Labour government later that year.
Mr Alexander said those who remember the horror of that day share the commitment of those parents and of wider Scottish society to get policy right on gun controls.
“I look back with a sense of deep admiration for the campaigning work of the affected parents, a deep sense of sorrow, both for the children who were lost, the teacher who was lost, and the parents who suffered an unimaginable loss on that day,” Mr Douglas said.
“I also feel a shared determination to honour their memory by continuing to uphold those tight gun laws which have been so critical to Scotland’s safety in the last 30 years.”