He was driven there by his mother, who had every reason to believe he would be safe; after all, the course was being held in the town hall. But H was far from safe. Unknown to everyone, another boy who was attending the course knew H and held a grievance against him – six weeks earlier he had attempted to stab H, which had put H in hospital for three days. H knew who attacked him but chose not to tell anyone who asked him.
When the other boy joined the course he immediately started fighting H. He used the knife he was carrying and in an attack that lasted less than a minute he stabbed H three times, killing him. The premises didn’t have any form of weapons detection system.
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