Concerns over Westminster Kingsway College pupil ‘skirmishes’
Published: 18 March 2010
by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
POLICE and the principal of a King’s Cross college have moved to reassure residents after three students were involved in “skirmishes” on Monday.
In two attacks on pupils from Westminster Kingsway College, described as unrelated, teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17 were left with injuries including a chipped tooth and a facial cut and were all taken to hospital. They have since been discharged.
Principal Andy Wilson urged residents not be alarmed at the attacks, seven months after a pupil was stabbed outside the college in Gray’s Inn Road.
Police have appealed for witnesses and have arrested a 16-year old.
Mr Wilson said: “It’s not an easy world out there but we do everything to make our students safe. The thing that will make them safest is getting an education.”
His comments came after Labour ward councillor Jonathan Simpson said he had received 10 phone calls from concerned residents.