"School Girl Gave Drugged Cakes To Two Teachers"
A GIRL aged 15 has been kicked out of school after baking cakes laced with drugs and giving them to two teaching assistants.
The members of staff fell violently ill with dizziness and severe headaches hours after tucking into treats the teenager made at home.
Worried colleagues called an ambulance and the assistants were rushed to hospital for emergency check-ups.
Doctors said that they had been drugged — probably with cannabis.
Senior staff at Wortley High School in Leeds, West Yorks, launched an immediate investigation.
Other teachers were quizzed to check they had not also been poisoned. The assistants were discharged from hospital hours later and returned to school the next day.
They decided not to lodge a formal complaint — so no tests were carried out on the cakes.
But the GCSE student was temporarily suspended by head teacher Gill Knutsson. After being interviewed by education officials, she was removed to another school in the city “to complete her education”.
Staff were said to be “shocked and stunned”. They are understood to have been warned about accepting food from pupils in the future.
A source said: “It was impossible to confirm exactly what the girl had put in the cakes because there were no toxicology tests. But there is little doubt it was drugs.
“The two assistants felt extremely ill and were unable to carry on working and had to be taken to hospital.
“What this girl did was extremely foolish and dangerous. She is lucky that they decided not to make a formal complaint — otherwise the police would have been called in.”
A school spokesman said: “The school works hard to educate its pupils about the dangers and implications of drug abuse and will not tolerate any behaviour of this kind.”
Wortley High School counts 7/7 London suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer, 22, as a former pupil.
Earlier this year it was one of 638 schools told by Government education chiefs to boost GCSE grades or face closure.