A schoolboy charged into an exam room full of pupils and stabbed his classmate in a terrifying 'revenge' attack.
The boy, 13, attacked his victim, 14, who had 'pushed' him the day before in a bid to settle a 'grudge' at the high school in Greater Manchester.
He told his victim 'I'm going to kill you' after the incident, which left fellow pupils and staff shocked.
It wasn't until after the horrific incident that the boy also confessed to one of his teachers that he had a knife in his schoolbag.
The defendant was walking through the corridor of the school while peering into the classroom, where the victim was sitting an exam in a room with fellow pupils, heard Manchester Crown Court.
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The teen attacker, who was not supposed to be in the classroom, walked in armed with a pair of scissors.
He threw a punch at the boy while holding the scissors and stabbed him to the neck, causing a four centimetre wound on his jaw line.
The boy then shouted 'I'm going to kill you, I'm going to stab you," prosecutor Aubrey Sampson said.
The victim threw a punch back before the 13-year-old cut him with the scissors a second time, on his eyebrow, the Manchester Evening News reports.
The teacher got hold of the attacker while other pupils went to help the victim. When asked what had happened by a member of staff, the defendant said: "I've just stabbed him sir."
He was still holding the blood stained pair of scissors. The police were called and arrived shortly after.
As he was escorted out of school the defendant 'whispered' to a teacher: "Please help me, I've got a knife in my bag." When he was questioned by police the boy admitted causing the injuries, and claimed his victim had pushed him the day before.
The boy, now 15, later pleaded guilty to section 18 wounding and possessing a knife. His name and the school he attended cannot be reported for legal reasons.,
"I suspect you, like many young people carrying knives in your bag, are under the erroneous belief it will provide you with some form of protection," Judge Elizabeth Nicholls told the defendant.
"Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the bitter experience of these courts that once a knife is carried, there is always a risk they can be produced, with fatal consequences.
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"Whatever he said or did to you the day before this incident, never, ever could have justified taking a pair of scissors to his face."
Defending, Mark Friend said the boy is genuinely remorseful, describing the incident as a 'act of revenge' committed 'at least in part through naivety'. He said the boy has made progress since, and described the attack as an 'aberration'.
"There is no doubt that he recognises he could lose his liberty, and ultimately he would accept such a punishment," Mr Friend said.
But he appealed to the judge to 'draw back' from a sentence of youth detention. Judge Nicholls said that if the boy were an adult, the starting point for sentence would have been five years in prison.
She said the boy's sentence would be reduced by half because he is a child, because he pleaded guilty at an early stage and because of the delay in bringing the case to court. The judge said she could not impose a custodial sentence, under the guise of a detention and training order, because she was 'bound' by the law which states such a punishment can only be handed to a 'persistent' offender.
But the judge said the boy was a 'prime candidate' for rehabilitation and that it would prevent him from being 'criminalised'. She added: "What the public want to see is that you don't offend again, that a young man before me goes from this court room with hopes and aspirations for the future that don't include the carrying of weapons."
The boy was sentenced to an 18 month youth rehabilitation order, which will include supervision from the authorities.
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