Boy, 5, attacks pupil with knife

The victim, also aged five, was left with scratches to his neck and hip after the playground incident in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

Headteacher Alan Staton said the Year One boy was sent straight home and will now be moved to another class.

Junaid Judge was in the playground of St Ann's Junior and Infant School when the boy was said to have approached him with a knife.

As Junaid ran away, the boy used the children's craft knife - which he had brought from home - to scratch him on the neck behind his right ear and also on his right hip.

Both sets of parents were immediately called to the school, according to Mr Staton.

The child was suspended for one afternoon and has now been isolated within school while a place in a new class is found for him.

Donna Judge, the victim's mother, said the two boys had clashed before but now her son was too scared to go to school.

"It's horrifying that a five-year-old boy should take a knife to school and be prepared to use it against another child," she told the Rotherham Advertiser.

"The headteacher was disgusted and worried by what happened, but I am appalled that this boy was not suspended for longer and moved to another school. My son is now terrified to go to school, thinking this boy will stab him."