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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

‘I was stabbed aged 15 and have suffered lifelong trauma – schools need to do more to protect their pupils’

Natashia Lee, then known as Jackman, as a teenager after her stab wounds had healed - (Supplied)

“I live in constant fear of a bad feeling, it’s a psychological scar that won’t ever be healed,” Natashia Lee explains as she recalls the traumatic time she was stabbed seven times at school by her childhood bullies.

The teenager woke on the morning of 10 November 2005 with a sense of dread in her stomach after suffering nightmares about her tormentors, who denigrated her for her perceived love of heavy metal music.

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