A 16-year-old British boy will be serving a life sentence for the murder of his teacher in front of a room full of students at a Catholic school in Leeds, Yahoo News reported on Monday.
Will Cornick admitted to stabbing Ann Maguire, 61, seven times on April 28. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to serve at least 20 years in prison.
The teen displayed a "total and chilling lack of remorse" over the murder and had a "truly grotesque" self-pride in what happened, Judge Peter Coulson said.
Maguire, a Spanish teacher, was at her desk attending to a student when Cornick came up behind her and stabbed her in the back and neck multiple times.
The teacher, standing only 5-feet-2 inches, was much smaller than the knife-wielding teen.
Cornick allegedly told classmates earlier in the day that he was going to hurt Maguire, showing off the knife he had in his possession. He also brought a bottle of whiskey to school to celebrate the murder.
"She deserves more than death, more than pain and more than anything that we can understand," he wrote on his Facebook page before the murder, according to the BBC.
On Christmas Eve 2013, Cornick sent Facebook messages to a friend about how he wanted to brutally kill his teacher so he could spend his life in jail, away from worries about money and life.
The parents are said to shocked and devastated at their son's actions.
"The parents are decent people and responsible parents," Prosecutor Paul Greaney said. "They are at a loss to understand how and why their son has turned out as he has and they have cooperated fully with the police and with the prosecution.
Maguire's sister Denise Courtenay said her and her family will never be the same again.
"We will never recover from this pain and anguish," she said. "No amount of punishment can compensate us for what we have lost."
