Obsessed Schoolboy Jailed for Attempting to Butcher a 12-year-old girl to Death

The court was told he had been infatuated with the girl, staring at her on train journeys and videoing her on his phone.

A+ Geeky student Cameron Cleland donned surgical gloves and told her: “I’m going to have to kill you.” then stabbed the terrified girl in the throat with a penknife before trying to strangle her, after rehearsing the murder he referred to as like “gutting a pig”.

Dressed in a hoodie, he attacked her on April 21 after luring her to a secluded spot outside Ilkley, West Yorkshire in England– by vowing to kill himself in text messages if she refused to meet him.

The attack ended when Cleland was disturbed by a passer-by and the victim was airlifted to hospital.

He was described by his head teacher as intelligent but “slightly geeky”.

Cleland, from Bradford, admitted attempted murder.

Sentencing him to life with a minimum of seven years, the Judge said: “You wanted to take her life at the age of 12.

"The degree of risk you pose of causing the most serious harm, if not death, is overwhelming.”