A teenage boy was stabbed and beaten up by a gang of thugs in a "revenge" attack at a busy bus station, a court has heard.
As horrified members of the public looked on, the youngster was repeatedly punched, kicked and hit with a metal bar before being stabbed in the chest with a knife.
The person who wielded the blade was also aged just 14, Wales Online reports.
The victim suffered a stab wound to the chest and a cut to his liver, and lost a large amount of blood, he was tended to by passers-by until paramedics arrived.
In a statement read out to Swansea Crown Court, the mother of the stabbed boy said it had been a "traumatic experience for the whole family" adding: "I want all the kids involved to know that using knives is not the answer."
Carina Hughes, prosecuting, said the background to the assault was a fight between friends of the defendant and friends of the victim on February 9 this year. Following the fight the victim began to receive threatening text messages.
Miss Hughes said the following day the defendant armed himself with a knife and metal bar and met up with seven other youngsters - together they caught a bus from Swansea to Gorseinon with the weapons.
The gang got off the bus at a stop on West Street in Gorseinon shortly before 6pm, then walked to the town's nearby bus station where their victim was sat with friends.
The court heard the group then launched a prolonged attack on their victim, punching and kicking him and striking him with a metal pole. The defendant then stabbed the boy in the chest before the group dispersed and the knife was discarded.
The court heard passers-by went to the aid of the injured teenager - who was bleeding profusely - and performed first aid until paramedics arrived and treated him at the scene before taking him to Morriston Hospital.
The boy suffered bruising and grazing to his face and legs, a puncture wound to his chest, damage to his diaphragm, and a 7cm-long wound to his liver.
Police launched an investigation, and a number of youngsters involved in the attack were identified and arrested. In his subsequent interview the defendant answered no comment to all questions asked.
Miss Hughes said it was the prosecution case that the attack had been a premeditated and prolonged assault carried out in public with a highly dangerous weapon, and motivated by revenge.
In an impact statement from the victim which was read to the court he said the assault had left him feeling anxious, panicky, and suffering with "bad dreams". He said he had lost his self-confidence, didn't want to go to school, and had been unable to play football or rugby with his friends.
In a statement from the victim's mother, she said "everything had changed" for the family following the attack. She said she was constantly on edge worrying about her children - one of whom is now seeing a counsellor - and everyone now has trackers on their phones so their whereabouts are known at all times.
The mum added: "This has been such a traumatic experience for the whole family. I am more strict with the kids and then I doubt and question every decision I make. Its been horrific. I want all the kids involved to know that using knives is not the answer."
The defendant, who lives Swansea, had previously pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding and two counts of possession of an offensive weapon when he appeared in the dock for sentencing. He has no previous convictions.
Andrew Evans, for the youth, said the defendant had been making good progress since being remanded into care of the local authority following an earlier hearing.
Judge Huw Rees told the teenager the consequences of what he did could have been "horrendous", and taking a knife to a human bodily could easily cut a vein or puncture an organ which could lead to death.
The judge told the defendant that because of his age he was going to be given an "opportunity", but he warned him that any return to violence or any breach of the order the court was going to impose would lead to detention.
The defendant was made the subject of a two-year Youth Referral Order with a supervision requirement, a programme requirement relating to knife crime, a three-month electronically monitored curfew, and an exclusion from entering Gorseinon.
The court heard two other boys who cannot be named because of their ages were also charged in relation to the attack - one was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm at a trial before Swansea Youth Court, and the other was acquitted. Sentencing in the youth court will take place later this month.
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