14 Year Old Schoolboy Who Stabbed A Teacher In The Stomach And Called Him N****a To Spend Less Than 3 Years In Jail

Schoolboy, 14, who stabbed supply teacher in the stomach in racist attack could be back on the streets in less than three years despite being branded 'dangerous' by judge

Supply teacher Vincent Uzomah, pictured with his wife, thought he was going to die after he was stabbed in the stomach in June
A teenager who stabbed a supply teacher in a racist attack before boasting about it on Facebook could be free within three years.

The 14-year-old, who a judge ruled cannot be identified, was overheard calling Vincent Uzomah a ‘b******’ and a ‘n*****’ before he stabbed him in the stomach at Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford in June.

In a message liked by 69 people, he then wrote on Facebook:

‘The motherf***** getin funny so I stick the blade straight in his tummy.’

Despite a judge finding he is a ‘dangerous young offender’, the youth could be freed in three years’ time to serve the rest of his 11-year sentence on licence.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC sentenced him to an extended sentence which includes six years custody and a further five years on licence. Current prison rules mean he could serve half of the six years behind bars.

The judge said: ‘What you have done is utterly shocking, deliberately, callously stabbing him.’

But he rejected an application for the youth’s identity to be made public saying the 14-year-old’s ‘welfare must come first and the public interest must give way’.

The teenager, who sat in the dock wearing a grey shirt and jeans, yawned and folded his arms as the judge passed sentence.

Victim Mr Uzomah said today that despite the ‘trauma and pain’ his attacker had put him and his family through, he forgave the youth and hoped he would turn his life around inside.

Speaking on the steps of Bradford Crown Court, Mr Uzomah said: ‘As a Christian I have forgiven this boy who has inflicted this trauma and pain onto me and my family.

‘It was, however, important for the law to run its course and for a strong message to be sent out.’

Passing sentence today, Judge Durham Hall also condemned the boy’s Facebook post and those who liked it as ‘sick’.

The judge said: ‘It’s an appalling reflection on a small microcosm of our society that within minutes or hours after posting, 69 people ‘liked’. How sick.’

Judge Durham Hall told the youth: ‘You went to your school armed with a knife with a significant blade intending, when the opportunity presented, to stab your teacher Vincent Uzomah.

‘You boasted about it before, you boasted about it after when you had stabbed him.’

He told the boy he ‘stabbed him deliberately then gloated in the presence of your classmates’.

The judge continued: ‘What you did to Vincent Uzomah was of such shocking seriousness that this man sitting in court, a God-fearing gentleman, first of all thought he was going to die. You have, by your actions, changed his life.’

Judge Durham Hall said he rejected the boy’s explanation to psychiatrists that he stabbed Mr Uzomah because he was hearing voices.

He said Mr Uzomah had to tell the teenager off from time to time because he was disruptive.

‘Suggestions you were calling him a n****r and the inference I must draw is that was a factor. You could not tolerate being told off by this gentleman of this background,’ he said.

Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, had earlier told the court the boy was described by others as ‘disruptive and a bully’ and had taken a dislike to Mr Uzomah in the seven weeks he had worked at the school.

Mr Sharp said: ‘He did not show any especial hostility to other teachers. Mr Uzomah, however, is black.

The prosecutor added: ‘The defendant disliked him, claiming he couldn’t teach, and freely referred to him by the epithet beginning with the letter n, including saying it in anger just before he attacked him.

‘The Crown’s case in consequence is that the attack was, at least in part, racially motivated.’

Mr Sharp said the boy told a friend the previous day that he was planning to stab a teacher and took a knife with a ‘substantial blade’ into school on June 11, discussing his plans with other pupils.

He stabbed Mr Uzomah after a row over his mobile phone, the court was told.

Mr Sharp said the boy was described by witnesses as ‘getting angry, red in the face and putting his head down and muttering the words bastard and n*****’.

He said: ‘He approached Mr Uzomah and reached into his pocket but at that point he took out the knife and stabbed Mr Uzomah in the stomach.’

He added: ‘Mr Uzomah thought he was going to die.’

About 20 minutes after the attack, jurors heard, the boy posted a message on Facebook which read: ‘The mother-f***** getin funny so I stick the blade straight in his tummy.’

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Source: By Richard Spillett for MailOnline

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