Boy, 14, who knifed his teacher could be free in three years

The teenager, whom the law does not allow to be named, used an offensive racist term before stabbing Vincent Uzomah in the stomach, Bradford Crown Court heard.

After the attack on the 50-year-old Leeds supply teacher the boy fled Dixons Kings Academy in Bradford and bragged about what he had done on Facebook.

His post, which was “liked” by at least 69 people, was described as an “appalling reflection” of society by Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC.

The teenager, who is from a Pakistani background and was described as having a drug problem, was handed an 11-year extended sentence after he admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the teacher.

Judge Durham Hall criticised the response to the post on the social media site, which read: “The mother****** getin funny so I stick the blade straight in his tummy.”

He said: “It’s an appalling reflection on a small microcosm of our society that within minutes or hours after posting, 69 people ‘liked’. How sick.”

Judge Durham Hall described the attack as “utterly shocking” and told the boy he had “deliberately and callously” stabbed his teacher.

He said: “You went to your school armed with a knife with a significant blade intending, when the opportunity presented, to stab your teacher Vincent Uzomah.

“You boasted about it before, you boasted about it after when you had stabbed him.”

He told the boy, who sat in the dock with his arms folded and yawned continuously throughout the sentencing, he “stabbed him deliberately then gloated in the presence of your classmates”.

The court heard the attack, on June 11, was racially motivated.

Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said: “He did not show any especial hostility to other teachers. Mr Uzomah, however, is black.

“The defendant disliked him, claiming he couldn’t teach, and freely referred to him by the epithet beginning with the letter N, including saying it in anger just before he attacked him.”

Judge Durham Hall said: “Suggestions you were calling him a n****r and the inference I must draw is that was a factor. You could not tolerate being told off by this gentleman of this background.”

Mr Uzomah, who sat with his wife Uduak in court and listened to the proceedings, said he had forgiven his attacker, who was described by classmates as “disruptive and a bully”.

The 50-year-old thought he was going to die after the attack, which left him needing hospital treatment for injuries to his stomach and bowel.

The court heard the boy had taken