‘Out of a horror movie’: Brave teacher who restrained teenage attacker recounts school stabbing

A 14-year-old girl has been detained at Swansea Crown Court for 15 years for the attempted murder of two teachers and another pupil at a school in Ammanford, south Wales, in April last year - (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

Once at the forefront of the south-west Wales’ decimated mining industry, Ammanford is a small and fairly unremarkable Welsh market town nestled at the foot of the towering Black Mountains.

But in April last year, the town was flung into the national spotlight after a teenage girl pulled out a knife and started attacking two teachers and another pupil during morning breaktime at Amman Valley School.