Ann Maguire murder: Inquest jury retires

A jury retired to consider its conclusions in the inquest into the death of a teacher murdered by a 15-year-old pupil in her classroom.

Ann Maguire, 61, was stabbed multiple times by Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds in 2014.

Cornick, who admitted her murder, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years in custody.

Mrs Maguire's family believe more could have been done to prevent her death and had campaigned for a full inquest.

Over six days, the jury of six women and five men at Wakefield Coroner's Court has heard how Cornick stabbed the Spanish teacher seven times with a 34cm-long kitchen knife.

The inquest was told on the morning of the attack on 28 April, Cornick told a number of children what he planned to do and also how he wanted to kill two other teachers at the school.

Much of the hearing has focused on why none of these children reported what they had heard before the tragedy.

Coroner Kevin McLoughlin told the jury he had taken the decision not to call the teenagers to give evidence.

He said jurors needed to consider whether the fact the children did not report what they heard and saw contributed to the death.

He added the jury also needed to consider whether the school's lack of an explicit policy about not bringing knives onto the premises had an impact.

Summing up the evidence, the coroner said the devastation caused by Mrs Maguire's murder on her family had been "self-evident".

He said "the cruelty is unspeakable" as he reminded the court that Mrs Maguire had adopted her dead sister's two sons.

Mrs Maguire is the only teacher to be murdered by a pupil in a British classroom.