A 16-year-old British boy was today jailed for life after he admitted stabbing to death his Spanish teacher in front of a horrified class in April.
The boy, who was not named, admitted murdering Ann Maguire, 61, in her classroom at Corpus Christi Catholic college in Leeds in West Yorkshire on April 28 this year.
The teenager stabbed Maguire in the neck and chased her out of the room before sitting back at his desk.
He was told he will serve a minimum of 20 years in jail. He looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as he admitted murdering his teacher.
The judge, Justice Coulson at Leeds Crown Court said it was "quite possible" that the boy would never be released, the BBC reported.
Prosecutor Paul Greaney told the court that students had noticed disturbing aspects to the boy's personality.
He told other children that he hated Maguire and wanted her dead, writing in a message on Facebook that she "deserves more than death, more than pain and more than anything that we can understand".
"In those messages he spoke of 'brutally killing' Mrs Maguire and spending the rest of his life in jail so as not to have to worry about life or money."
The court heard that Maguire had been leaning over her desk helping a girl with her work when the boy attacked her from behind.
Maguire was stabbed seven times in her back and neck before a colleague, alerted by children screaming, rushed her friend into a work room and held the door shut.
The boy, who was 15 at the time of the attack, went back to the classroom and sat down "as if nothing had happened", the prosecutor told the court.
The boy told a psychiatrist after the killing that he had a "sense of pride" in killing Mrs Maguire, the court heard.
Because of his young age, the judge and barristers did not wear their wigs and gowns during the hearing.
The judge called Mrs Maguire "a remarkable person" and said that her killer had shown a "total and chilling lack of remorse".
He said the teenager's pride in what he did and lack of remorse was "truly grotesque".
