A gang of masked teenagers travelled in convoy to a sixth form college to settle a "grudge" before stabbing two students.
The nine youths waited for their target outside Riverside College in Widnes wearing balaclavas and armed with weapons as they sought "revenge" for a rift which had formed during their school days. They then pounced on him and his friends as they left for the day, with one of the victims being knifed in the kidney during the shocking incident.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today that the group travelled to the college from Liverpool on the afternoon of February 3 2020 "apparently to seek revenge over some grudge against one of the students". Two then 16-year-old boys, also from Liverpool, were stabbed during a subsequent outbreak of violence in the street outside the sixth form.
