Luke Walmsley: Stabbed at school

The witness said the defendent was angry and hid something shiny in his hand as he ran through the corridor of a Lincolnshire school.

A 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies murdering Luke Walmsley, 14, on 4 November 2003.

The girl cried as she watched the alleged attack on CCTV. The trial continues at Nottingham Crown Court.

'Heard threats'

She told the court that she heard Luke Walmsley cry out that he had been stabbed before collapsing to the floor at Birkbeck Secondary School in North Somercotes.

The witness said she was standing with a group of friends when the defendant approached them with something in his hand.

She said: "(The defendant) came running up to us and he had this thing up his sleeve.

"He says, 'I am going to do it, I am going to get him'. He sounded angry and ready to do something."

He spoke to us and it was like he was just playing a joke on us like he usually does Witness

Sasha Wass QC, defending, later challenged the 15-year-old witness, whose evidence was given on a videolink to the court.

She said: "There was never an occasion that morning when (the defendant) was hiding anything up his sleeve."

"He had something on his arm," the witness replied.

"He never made threats to do anything or get anybody," Miss Wass added.

"That is what I heard," the girl replied.

Another student later told police how she thought Luke was joking when he told her he had been stabbed.

The young girl, who had been throwing a tennis ball across the classroom with Luke moments before, said she could not stop crying when she realised what had happened.

"He spoke to us and it was like he was just playing a joke on us like he usually does.

"He just looked at us and he was still holding his chest and he moved his hand and he said 'Oh my God, I've been stabbed'.

The teenager said she only realised what had happened when she saw the defendant with blood on his hands and a teacher holding the knife.