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Knife bully attacked girl

Shelina Begum
1/ 6/2005

A ROCHDALE mother is demanding a police inquiry after her 11-year-old daughter was jabbed with a knife by a school bully.

Fahima Choudhury is horrified and angry that teachers waited two weeks to inform her of the attack on her daughter Farzana and another girl at Greenbank Primary School, Rochdale.

Sari shop owner, Mrs Choudhury said her daughter was in class watching a video when a boy who had been bullying her for nearly a year pulled out a penknife and started jabbing the blade in her leg.

Frightened, Farzana moved away. Her tormentor then began to attack her friend with the knife. The two girls then told their teacher of their ordeal which left them with red marks on their legs.

Mr Chowdhury says the attack has left her daughter afraid to go to school for fear it will happen again.

She said: "I noticed Farzana was really quiet the week of the attack and was even too afraid to go out. Every time I asked her what was wrong she told me it was nothing that I should worry about.

"Then her teacher rang me almost two-weeks after the attack and told me what had happened. I was just so shocked. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My daughter could have been seriously injured if this boy jabbed the penknife any harder.

"I was even more angry because the school didn't tell me straightway. Instead I was told that everything was sorted and there was nothing to worry about. But of course I am worried, that boy, who is known to be a school bully, is still there and could hurt my daughter again.

"I've been told by teachers that the police visited the school after the attack and that the boy's parents were called in, but I should have been there at least, the school has been negligent in not involving me."

Mrs Choudhury has been in touch with the police insisting in a full investigation.

She said: "Why is an 11-year-old allowed to bring a knife into school anyway? It is really disturbing especially as he was showing off with it and picking on someone vulnerable. This is a serious issue and I plan to take action."