Dance or we'll shoot you

Feb 3 2006

EXCLUSIVE by Greg O'Keeffe, Liverpool Echo

A SCHOOLGIRL held up a classroom assistant at gunpoint and told her: "Dance, or I shoot." The girl, 14, and a friend laughed as the mother-of-four collapsed in tears. She was convicted of hiding the 12-inch weapon inside her tracksuit top and telling the teaching assistant she would shoot her. Last year she was given an anti-social behaviour order after terrorising her neighbours. Story continues ADVERTISEMENT But when the ECHO asked for the right to identify the girl for the safety of her community, magistrates at a Bootle court ruled she was not a "persistent offender." South Sefton magistrates heard the girl took the ball-bearing gun to her school with two friends last September 26. They claimed they were cutting through the school grounds with the gun to shoot at fizzy drink cans in a nearby woods. Georgina Leigh, prosecuting, said the three stopped to show the gun to a male pupil at the school and then moved on. But when the teaching assistant asked them to leave, they stopped and one pointed the weapon at her. The gun was then fired at cars parked nearby.

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