A SCHOOLGIRL has been found guilty of attempted murder at her school in Hampshire.

A jury at Winchester Crown Court took less than three hours to unanimously convict the girl, who was 14 at the time of the stabbing.

The judge, Justice Fraser, then adjourned sentencing and ordered that psychiatric and pre-sentence reports on the girl, now aged 15, should be prepared.

He said: "You are going to have to come back to be sentenced, and there are reports I need and one of them is a psychiatric report."

Justice Fraser didn’t set a date for sentencing.

At the start of the trial on Tuesday, October 4, the girl pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.

But she admitted unlawful wounding and possession of a bladed article.

The jury heard the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, lured her 15-year-old best friend to a quiet part of the school grounds and stabbed her.

After the stabbing the girl confessed what she had done to the school deputy head, and later the knife she used was found in a nearby rubbish bin, the court learned.

Since the offence the girl has been remanded in secure accommodation.

For the prosecution James Newton-Price QC, told the court that she had become obsessed with serial killers and school shootings.

He said at one stage the teenager prepared what she called a ’kill list’ of fellow pupils she didn’t get on with.

And he added she had spoken about killing her mother and brother, but instead attempted to kill her friend.

Before the attack the girl led her friend to a secluded part of the school grounds, told her to close her eyes and then tried to stab her in the chest, he said.

But the victim opened her eyes and moved backwards as her attacked lunged with the knife.

The victim suffered a minor wound to the chest, and after being treated in hospital came home the same day.