Still Waters Posted April 28, 2014 #1 Share Posted April 28, 2014 A 15-year-old male pupil has been arrested after a female teacher was stabbed to death this morning at Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds, West Yorkshire police said. http://www.telegraph...l-in-Leeds.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewinn Posted April 28, 2014 #2 Share Posted April 28, 2014 As its breaking news its hard to comment on, but goes without saying, terrible situation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rashore Posted April 28, 2014 #3 Share Posted April 28, 2014 How awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 28, 2014 #4 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Can not imagine any excuse for this kind of murderous behaviour. Very unfortunate and very sorry for the teacher and her loved ones, I hope he is locked away from society for a very very long time. 15 is old enough to be deemed a danger to society. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Kitten Posted April 29, 2014 #5 Share Posted April 29, 2014 This is really sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted April 29, 2014 #6 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Well ****. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted April 29, 2014 #7 Share Posted April 29, 2014 I would hate to be that kids parents. What drives a mind to act in such a perverse manner? I had teachers I didn't like, but the thought of stabbing one would not even enter my head. Saddening to know people like this exist. And to throw ones life away when so young as well. He destroyed his life too most likely. Well ****. Catholic school too mate. Who would have thunk it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted April 29, 2014 #8 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Horrible, unfortunately these things seem to happen every 5-10 years. No idea how they can be avoided either, so sad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted April 29, 2014 #9 Share Posted April 29, 2014 One of my fellows when I was a lad took a knige to school, the Principal (who has cast iron ballocks I can tell you) simply fronted up to the kid and said "Give me the knife" and the lad handed it over. He went before the magistrate, said he took it for defense from his old man and got a suspended sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted April 29, 2014 Author #10 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Terrible thing to happen. Here's a little more in the news today - Ann Maguire is first teacher to be killed at work for 18 years, but unions say isolated incident underlines risks of job http://www.theguardi...ds-anne-maguire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewinn Posted April 29, 2014 #11 Share Posted April 29, 2014 in the coming days when more becomes clear, such as the lads background - i'd be surprised if there wasn't warning signs, such as a long list of minor incidents prior to the stabbing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted April 29, 2014 Author #12 Share Posted April 29, 2014 in the coming days when more becomes clear, such as the lads background - i'd be surprised if there wasn't warning signs, such as a long list of minor incidents prior to the stabbing. He said the teenage suspect would be questioned by officers "at some point during today"."Given his young age, this is a process which needs to be handled very sensitively, and may take some time to complete," he added. http://www.bbc.co.uk...ngland-27201812 She was due to retire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted April 29, 2014 #13 Share Posted April 29, 2014 What is wrong with people? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted April 29, 2014 Author #14 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Ok, now I've found this in the Daily Mail - Schoolboy posted about Dark Souls and Grand Theft Auto games Classmates said he loved heavy metal music, felt he was an outcast Threatened to commit suicide after reporting he had been bullied His mother, a human resources manager, seemed 'attentive' 'Really clever' but suffered from bouts of depression, peers claim http://www.dailymail...ideo-games.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Wearer of Hats Posted April 29, 2014 #15 Share Posted April 29, 2014 So we're blaming computer games again are we? OHH LOOK Heavy Metal music as well. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecoNoir Posted April 29, 2014 #16 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Ok, now I've found this in the Daily Mail - Schoolboy posted about Dark Souls and Grand Theft Auto games Classmates said he loved heavy metal music, felt he was an outcast Threatened to commit suicide after reporting he had been bullied His mother, a human resources manager, seemed 'attentive' 'Really clever' but suffered from bouts of depression, peers claim http://www.dailymail...ideo-games.html Well that just described me to the detail... as well as several thousand other poor saps who will later go on to live rich fulfilling productive lives! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 29, 2014 #17 Share Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) So we're blaming computer games again are we? OHH LOOK Heavy Metal music as well. Not quite, but more of a case where there are already underlying problems mentally and he has now taken fantasy into reality. If it had not been computer games or heavy metal music, it would have been something else, in time possibly, unless his mental instability was addressed in time, but here we have the classic problem where his mental instability does not even get looked at because when he stuck on his computer, he is out of others way and they are happy with that. I think this is where the computer games comes into it, but not so much they are to blame, but more likely to blame would be the time he was able to spend on it, which no doubt did not help his mental instability, it just fed it even more. As I said, others around him were not concerned what he was doing on the computer or thinking what affect it might have on him, because he was out of their hair. Edited April 29, 2014 by freetoroam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted April 29, 2014 #18 Share Posted April 29, 2014 The times they sure have changed. I remember graduating in '79 and even raising your voice to a teacher got you thrown out of class. Last year a young school teacher in Massachusetts was raped and stabbed to death by one of her students. So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skookum Posted April 30, 2014 #19 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Ok, now I've found this in the Daily Mail - Schoolboy posted about Dark Souls and Grand Theft Auto games Classmates said he loved heavy metal music, felt he was an outcast Threatened to commit suicide after reporting he had been bullied His mother, a human resources manager, seemed 'attentive' 'Really clever' but suffered from bouts of depression, peers claim http://www.dailymail...ideo-games.html As proved so many times before, you cannot legislate against lunatics. How many kids play computer games and play heavy metal music? Are they all on the brink of killing someone? Typical Daily Mail jumping on the bandwagon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quillius Posted April 30, 2014 #20 Share Posted April 30, 2014 What is wrong with people? indeed. I seem to use this very phrase more often as I go through my years....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Kitten Posted April 30, 2014 #21 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Why focus on the killers hobbies/musical genre and not why he killed the poor woman? I read in a newspaper yesterday that he had it in for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewinn Posted April 30, 2014 #22 Share Posted April 30, 2014 (edited) Why focus on the killers hobbies/musical genre and not why he killed the poor woman? I read in a newspaper yesterday that he had it in for her. the reason they mention his hobbies/interests is because they - the media have to fill columns and airtime, and currently they have very little to go, getting very little from the police while they investigate. so they'll write/chat rubbish until they have something. its a symptom of the 24 hour news, and partly why we have shoddy journalism. - i wish they'd just report incidents when they have all the facts. Edited April 30, 2014 by stevewinn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted April 30, 2014 Author #23 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Teacher stabbing: 15-year-old charged with murder http://www.telegraph...ith-murder.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Kitten Posted May 2, 2014 #24 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Has a second teenager been arrested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Waters Posted May 2, 2014 Author #25 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Has a second teenager been arrested? Yes. A second pupil at the school where teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed to death is arrested after police discover social media messages between him and a teenager charged with her murder. http://www.telegraph...ire-murder.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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