A TEENAGE girl accused of attempted murder has told a court that she drew up plans for a Columbine-style massacre at a Hampshire school.

The 15-year-old also confirmed on Monday that she had a 60-name “kill list” and even set a date to murder her mother and brother.

The trial of a schoolgirl accused of stabbing a classmate in the grounds of a school began on Monday, October 3, in Winchester Crown Court.

The defendant is accused of luring a student to a quiet part of the school before stabbing her in the chest with a kitchen knife, causing minor injuries.

The girl, who was 14 at the time of the attack earlier this year, has admitted to being in possession of a knife in school and wounding with unlawful intent. But the girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has denied a count of attempted murder and wounding with intent to cause Grievous Bodily Harm.

The defendant told the court on Monday that she started to look at “unpleasant things” on the internet following a spate of cyber bullying on social media.

She told Michael Parroy, for the defendant, that news of a school shooting “piqued her interest” and led to further research into serial killers. She jotted proposals for a school shooting in a journal and discussed them with a friend along with separate plans to kill her mother and brother.

But when asked by Mr Parroy if she intended to carry out either plan, the defendant told the court “no”.

She said: “I’d been researching and one particular thing that popped up a lot was the Columbine shooting in 1999.

“I found out they (the perpetrators) were bullied and in some kind of weird sense I could relate to that considering the bullying of the last year.”

The court heard the defendant and her friend talked about “buying murder supplies” and murdering an old woman so they could move into her house.

But she insisted the plans were no more than a fantasy that had been influenced by her research into serial killers. She added: “I think I was really being affected by what I was researching and I was a bit too deep into the research.

“It was a stupid decision to make but I thought creating this plan would push me. There was nothing really going on in my life and I wanted to make a change, but I possibly went the wrong way about doing it.”

The trial is continuing at Winchester Crown Court this week.