Teacher on attempted murder charge
A science teacher has been charged with the attempted murder of one of his students, police said.
Peter Harvey, 49, is accused of attacking Jack Waterhouse, 14, at All Saints' Roman Catholic School in Mansfield on Wednesday morning.
Harvey, of Rannoch Drive, Mansfield, is due to appear before the town's magistrates, Nottinghamshire Police said.
Jack was found by paramedics unconscious in a pool of blood at the entrance to a classroom in the school's science block at 11am on Wednesday.
He is currently in a stable condition at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, where he is being treated for serious head injuries.
A police spokesman said: "A man has been charged with the attempted murder of a pupil at a Mansfield school.
"Peter Harvey, aged 49, of Rannoch Drive, Mansfield, is accused of the attempted murder of Jack Waterhouse, aged 14, at All Saints' Roman Catholic School on Wednesday, July 8, 2009."
