{"id":631696,"date":"2026-06-10T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631696\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:14:11","slug":"co-op-academy-knife-attack-suspect-girl-detained-under-mental-health-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/631696\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-op Academy knife attack suspect girl detained under Mental Health Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ch Insp Jon Shilvock said: &#8220;Our investigation has continued at pace since yesterday morning, when we were first made aware of the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with those that were injured and were caught up in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whilst the physical injuries were not believed to be serious, we know the impact to those that were involved or were witnesses to this will be significant, and we want to reassure our community we are taking this very seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As our investigation progresses, we are aware that names relating to the incident are being circulated on social media, which are unhelpful for the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is also causing concern with the victims and those that have been impacted therefore we would stress that people do not speculate regarding this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added officers will remain in the area &#8220;to provide support to ensure staff, students and the wider community feel safe&#8221; and if anyone had concerns to speak to officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Co-op Academy, which reopened today, praised its staff and pupils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are incredibly proud of the swift actions of our staff and the mature response of our pupils,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ch Insp Jon Shilvock said: &#8220;Our investigation has continued at pace since yesterday morning, when we were first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-631696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631696","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=631696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}