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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emily Pennink

Girl aged 13 locked up for stabbing adoptive mother

The girl went on to attack three care workers with a knife she had borrowed on the pretext of peeling grapes, the Old Bailey heard (PA) - (PA Archive)

A 13-year-old girl has been locked up for 18 months for stabbing her adoptive mother.

She was aged 12 when she plunged a kitchen knife into her 47-year-old mother’s arm at the family home in Wimbledon, south-west London, on March 2.

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