A teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a male teacher was stabbed at a Gloucestershire secondary school this morning. The teacher was attacked in a corridor and suffered a single wound, Gloucestershire Police assistant chief constable Richard Ocone said at a press conference this afternoon. The teacher is in a stable condition. The suspect was arrested at around 11 a.m. – two hours after the attack – by firearms officers in Stoke Orchard, around five miles from the school. Ocone added that the motivation is unclear – but it is not thought to be terror-related.
The parent of an eight-year-old at Tewkesbury Academy told the BBC that his daughter video called him from a drama class to tell him of the stabbing – and that her teacher had pulled a wardrobe across the door to protect the pupils from any further attacks.
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