Girl, 14, who ‘thought serial killers were cool’ ‘stabbed her best friend over messages she was receiving on social media’
The young girl has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, instead pleading guilty to unlawful wounding and possession of a bladed article on school premises
A 14-YEAR-OLD who was "obsessed with serial killers and school shootings" stabbed a friend in the schoolyard after suspecting the fellow teen had been catfishing her.
The teenager, who is now 15, lured her friend to a quiet part of the Hampshire school grounds before stabbing her with a kitchen knife and causing a minor wound to her chest on April 25.
But the teen, who had done a fashion project on serial killers Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez, told police that the "attempt was not to kill" her friend, the Winchester Crown Court heard.
She said she suspected that the victim had been responsible for creating false social media accounts, including a Tumblr blog, using the defendant's identity.
She said the online accounts posted photos of her and her home on it, with the photos coming from Snapchat messages she had sent.
The defendant said the posts on Instagram and the 4chan forum led to her getting "rude and suggestive" messages from strangers with the messages only ending when she deleted all of her social media accounts.
The victim has since denied being involved.
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The defendant said: "It made me really, really unhappy; that was when I started doing self-inflicted wounds, I didn't talk to anyone about it.
"It makes me nervous, gives me butterflies in my stomach, I remember how much it hurt that someone would do it. I felt I couldn't trust anyone, I couldn't talk to anybody as they could be a possible person who did it."
She said she could not explain why she carried out the attack.
the attack came after the teenager researched fatal stab wounds on the Internet.
She said: "Nothing has happened between me and her which would have set it off, nothing has triggered it, whenever I am around her I feel uneasy and I can't trust her."
The young woman said she had previously had thoughts about hurting people, saying: "I wouldn't really call it an urge, today is the exception, it's been thoughts, not like killing, but maiming them, I'm not sure why."
She said she was not "influenced" by serial killers but was only interested in them, saying she thought a fashion project on serial killers would be "cool and edgy".
The defendant added that she had also been interested in "quite dark stuff" including online videos including an IS film and one of a man mutilating himself.
The now 15-year-old has denied charges of attempted murder and wounding with intent. She has pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and possession of a bladed article on school premises.
The trial continues.
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