UK: Schoolgirl stabbed sister 'in row over boyfriend'

A 14-year-old schoolgirl stabbed her 16-year-old sister in the back with a carving knife after a fight about a boyfriend, their mother told a court today.

Earlier, the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the second day of a trial at Bradford Crown Court.

But she denies murdering her sister at their home in the Ovenden area of Halifax, West Yorkshire, on the evening of Monday March 26 this year.

The mother, who is separated with two remaining daughters, told the court the girls “started bickering between each other”.

The defendant told her sibling that her boyfriend “wouldn’t amount to much, only working in Morrisons”.

The court heard that at this point the argument escalated into a physical fight, with the older sister grabbing the younger girl by the hair.

The mother said she managed to “eventually” separate the girls, although she could not make the 14-year-old apologise for what she had said.

The court heard the defendant went into the kitchen, took a 20cm carving knife - the largest in the block – and ran back to the living room.

She passed her mother as she was coming out of the bathroom and told her sister: “You’re going to get it”.

The mother told the court: “They were struggling. I couldn’t see where the knife was.

“I just saw blood spraying up on the wall.”