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aths, the teenager tapped Harvey on the cheek and they squared up to each other.
Ms Heath-Whyte separated them and delegated Harvey to the opposite side of the classroom. The friend who had supposedly carried the knife before entered the room, and the defendant at first hesitated, before crossing the room in search of Harvey.
She told him he was not to come face-to-face with the other boys. “If you don’t leave, you will be put out,” she said, but her warning was unheeded.
Then came a scuffle – brief, and started by Harvey – but ended with the defendant producing his knife and stabbing him once.
“I heard a noise behind me and saw [Harvey] … backing away,” Ms Heath-Whyte told the court.
She saw the defendant – who “looked shocked” – eight feet away from her, with the knife in one hand. She grabbed him and restrained him in a corridor, while school nurse Karen Parkhurst tried to treat Harvey.
Despite the combined efforts of staff, medical professionals and paramedics, Harvey died that afternoon in hospital.
His killer later admitted to police he had stashed the knife after the killing.
In his only account to police, a prepared statement read to the jury, he said he had been “angry, scared” and “deficient in my ability to understand my actions.”
The trial heard there was no evidence he had been bullied by Harvey, as he had claimed, and had never reported to the school any threats or weapons from him.
The teenager had been supervised for four years by social services, but records showed nothing more than a “stable placement” and a difficulty concentrating in school.
Sentencing him to at least 11-and-a-half years in jail, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC told the killer: “You are a clear danger and you are utterly deserving of condemnation.”
He added that his own support and protection, potentially leading him onto a better path, would be limited.
“Only time will tell if you have the necessary ingredients within you to change in a positive way,” he said.
Harvey’s parents, Mark and Caroline, have not commented on the sentence, but the jury heard they wished to make it known that “he was a loving and caring son, brother, grandson and nephew who was extremely popular with his many friends” and that they would never recover from their loss.
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