LONDON
A 16-year-old youth has pleaded guilty to murdering his school teacher in front of a classroom full of students in the first case of its kind in Britain.
The teacher of Spanish, 61-year-old Ann Maguire, was stabbed repeatedly at Corpus Christi Catholic College in the North of England in April this year.
The youth's parents sat alongside him in Leeds Crown Court as he admitted the killing.
The pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was aged 15 and studying for his GCSE exams at the time of the attack.
Maguire, who had worked at the school for 40 years, had been preparing to retire.
The case represents the first time a teacher has been stabbed to death in a British school and the first time a teacher had been killed in a school since the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when gunman Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher at a primary school near Stirling, Scotland.
More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service in September in tribute to Maguire, had two daughters and had also raised two nephews after the death of her sister from cancer in 1986.
The teenager will be sentenced at a later date.
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