by Akan Ido

A sixteen year old British student has confessed to stabbing his teacher to death in the classroom.

Richard Wright, the teenager’s defence lawyer told the Leeds Crown Court on Friday that his client, who was 16-years-old at the time of the said crime, has accepted responsibility for the killing of his Spanish teacher, Ann Maguire.

He, however, did not enter a plea.

Read the NY Daily News report below:

The death of the 61-year-old Maguire was the first killing of a teacher in a British school since the 1996 Dunblane massacre in which a lone gunman killed 16 children and their teacher.

Maguire had taught at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, northern England, for 40 years and was planning to retire.

The boy, who was 15 at the time, appeared in Leeds Crown Court by video link. The court is preparing psychiatric reports before a murder trial expected in November.