{"id":421652,"date":"2026-02-12T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421652\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:03:09","slug":"boy-13-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-double-stabbing-at-kingsbury-high-school-in-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421652\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 13, charged with attempted murder after double stabbing at Kingsbury High School in London | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after two pupils were stabbed at a London school.<\/p>\n

The boys, aged 12 and 13, were taken to hospital after Tuesday’s incident at Kingsbury High School in Brent, northwest London.<\/p>\n

They were initially said to be in a serious condition but police said on Wednesday they were stable and not in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

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The suspect, who cannot be named due to his age, has now been charged with two counts of attempted murder and will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Youth Court later today.<\/p>\n

He has also been charged with having a knife on school premises and using a noxious substance – insect spray – on a third child.<\/p>\n

Officers were called to the school around 12.40pm on Tuesday and the suspect was arrested in the local area at around 4.15pm.<\/p>\n

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In a letter to parents, the head teacher called it a “deeply traumatic event for the whole school community”.<\/p>\n

The school has 1,997 pupils, according to the Department for Education, and has an upper and lower school, as well as a sixth form, across two nearby sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after two pupils were stabbed at a London school.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-421652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}