Girl who stabbed teachers in Welsh school had been considered for Prevent

Multi-agency report says girl at 13 had fascination with Hitler, weapons and claimed to speak German and Russian

A teenager given a 15-year sentence for attempting to murder three people at her school in south-west Wales when she was 13 had been considered for referral to the anti-extremism Prevent programme over her interest in Adolf Hitler, according to a new inquiry.

The girl, now 15, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used a knife to stab two teachers and a pupil at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, in April 2024. She told police after her arrest: “That’s one way to be a celebrity.”