Schoolboy, 14, accused of trying to kill 13-year-old girl with 'fearsome' Samurai sword says he was offered £20 by another girl to attack her on Halloween camping trip
Daily MailA schoolboy accused of attempting to murder a 13-year-old girl claims he was offered £20 to attack her with a Samurai-style sword by another girl following a row at a Halloween camping trip. A court heard the two schoolgirls had been arguing all night before the 14-year-lad stabbed the victim ten times with a Kortada sword - said to belong to the other girl's father - in a remote woodland outside Hull, East Yorkshire. Pictured: A police car sits close to a wooded area in North Ferriby near to where a 13-year-old girl was found with stab injuries on Friday morning 'He accepts that, when he attacked her with the sword, he intended to cause her really serious harm. The court heard on the evening of last October 31, the teenagers had gathered at a house where a girl, then aged 15 but now 16, was showing off the Kortada sword which the defendant later said belonged to her father.
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