The 13-year-old girl had been camping with friends on Halloween 2023 near the Humber Bridge in south Yorkshire when she was stabbed several times with a large sword
A teenage girl stabbed several times with a large sword begged her attacker “please don’t do this” before she was attacked, a court heard.
On Halloween last year, the girl, 13, was with friends at a home, when another girl, now aged 16, brought a Kortada sword with her. Later they decided to camp overnight in a field near the A63 and Humber Bridge and took the weapon with them.
Once the tents were up, the girl who had brought the sword began shouting at the 13-year-old and called her names. She decided to leave and asked a boy, then aged 14, to show her the way back.
When they were in a secluded area the boy allegedly pulled the sword from his trousers and attacked the girl, stabbing 10 ten times in her back, chest, stomach, neck, head, knee and arm. She managed to push him away and he fled, HullLive reported.
Despite her injuries, the girl managed to climb a fence and stood on the nearby road until a passer by stopped to help, the court heard. The teenage boy, now aged 15, denies attempted murder. The jury has been told he admits charges of wounding the girl with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing the sword without reason or authority.
David Lamb, prosecuting, said: “As a result of those injuries, the young girl came very close to losing her life.
“Having caused those dreadful injuries, he chose to leave her alone, frightened and bleeding heavily, in a secluded and dark wooded area adjacent to the A63 and the Humber Bridge.
“She saw him adjusting his jacket and pulling something from the waistband of his trousers and, as she turned, she saw [that] 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 the 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. 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.”
Despite her injuries, the girl told motorists she had been stabbed and gave the boy’s name. Police found two blue tents in the field area and he was in one of them. He did not seem shocked and asked: “Attempted murder? What?”
The teenager told the police the sword belonged to the father of the 15-year-old girl. He said: “I don’t know who I’m supposed to have attacked. There’s literally just us lot here.”
The girl was taken to Hull Royal Infirmary and she was later transferred by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary. She was admitted to the high dependency ward.
A forensic expert later said her injuries were “a very serious threat to her life” and a chest wound could easily have been fatal. It had penetrated the chest wall and caused damage to her right lung, which collapsed.
The wound to her abdomen would have posed a serious risk to her life. It had penetrated her liver. The stab wounds to her upper back could easily have damaged her spine, spinal cord or passed into her chest.
The trial continues.
