Camping horror as teen boy, 14, ‘repeatedly stabbed’ woman, 13, with ‘fearsome’ sword

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT The 13-year-old girl was left with ‘dreadful’ injuries after she was stabbed 10 times with a ‘fearsome’ sword during a camping trip near a wooded area

A 14-year-old male repeatedly stabbed a girl with a “terrifying” sword, leaving her with “horrific” injuries that could have easily resulted in her death, a jury has heard. The 13-year-old victim was left with 10 stab wounds following the early morning attack and was “extremely lucky” not to have died from her severe injuries last year.

Both the boy and the girl, who have not been publicly named, were part of a group of seven teenagers who had gone camping in a field near a wooded area off the A63 near Hessle. The boy stands accused of intentionally attempting to murder her with the large weapon, similar in size to a Samurai sword, Hull Crown Court was told.

The teenage boy, now 15, denies attempted murder. However, the jury was informed that he admits to charges of wounding the girl with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing the sword without reason or authority.

Prosecutor David Lamb KC stated that the teenager attacked the girl, now 14, with a Kortada sword, similar in shape and size to a Samurai sword. “With that terrifying weapon, this defendant inflicted 10 stab wounds to her chest, back, neck and arms,” Mr Lamb said.

“As a result of those injuries, that young girl came very close to losing her life.”, reports Hull Live.

The incident took place during the Halloween evening of October 31, the girl was part of a group of young friends at the home of a 15-year-old girl. Another girl, then aged 15 but now 16, had brought a Kortada sword with her. She was showing the sword around to the group of teenagers, including the defendant.

She was flaunting the blade to her friends, including the defendant. “He, along with the others, touched that sword out of its protective sheath,” Mr Lamb revealed.

“Having touched that sword out of its protective sheath, from an early stage this defendant was aware, the prosecution say, of its capabilities.” The group made their way there on foot to a nearby field after midnight, carrying camping equipment and tents with them as they progressed through the streets of Hessle,” Mr Lamb described.

The 15 year old sword bearer still had the weapon in a bag she was carrying. Mr Lamb shared about the girl who was later stabbed: “Although she was happy to go on that camping trip when it began, she began to feel unsafe as the journey progressed. She was in unfamiliar surroundings and, not least, because there was a sword among the group.

“Eventually, the group arrived at the scene where they would pitch tents, having walked through a densely wooded area behind the Humber View Hotel and close to the Humber Bridge.”

A 15 year old girl, who had brought along a sword, began berating a 13 year old girl, hurling insults at her. The younger girl decided to leave and asked a boy to guide her back.

As they headed towards the woods, the defendant caught up and whispered to the boy, who then told the girl that the defendant would escort her back. “The prosecution say that this was a deliberate plan devised by this defendant to manipulate and isolate her, away from where the others could not see her or hear her, in a secluded area, hidden by trees, and all the while whilst he had taken with him the sword, which he had secreted, unbeknown to her, in the waistband of his trousers,” Mr Lamb explained.

“She saw him adjusting his jacket and pulling something from the waistband of his trousers and, as she turned, she saw that, that something was a sword. She stood up and she ran. She was scared.

“She was worried and she was shouting at the defendant to go away. He did the polar opposite. He ran after her. He pushed that girl to the floor to create, we say, a position where she was vulnerable, where she was lying on her back kicking and screaming, trying to get him away. She was pleading with him: ‘Please, don’t do this. Go away’. This defendant didn’t do what she wanted.”

Mr Lamb claimed: “He stood over her and and he pushed her to the ground and he crouched down and he said to that young girl: ‘I’m sorry. I have to do this’. He then commenced his attack on her with the sword.

“He stabbed her with that sword and at a time when he was pinning her to the ground. She had fingermark bruising to her neck caused by his restraint to her while he was stabbing her.”

The girl had 10 stab wounds, including to her back, chest, stomach, neck, head, knee and arm. “The attack was sustained, it was determined, it was constant and conducted with a weapon, we say, used with the obvious intent to kill her,” claimed Mr Lamb.

She was admitted to the high dependency ward at Leeds General Hospital. A forensic expert later confirmed that her injuries posed “a very serious threat to her life” and a chest wound could easily have been fatal.

The trial continues.

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