16 Year Old Boy Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Killing His 61 Year Old Teacher

The identity of a British teen who admitted to murdering his Spanish teacher in front a classroom full of peers was revealed Monday as a judge handed down a sentence of up to life in prison.

Will Cornick, 16, attacked 61-year-old Ann Maguire with a large kitchen knife in April as the beloved teacher at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds was bent over helping another student with her work.

After brutally stabbing the educator at least seven times, the then-15-year-old sat down and said, “good times,.

The baby-faced teen had not been named until Monday because of his age. But Cornick, who a judge said had shown a “chilling lack of remorse,” will spend at least 20 years behind bars with the possibility of a life sentence.

The disturbed teen had long held a grudge against Maguire, fantasizing for months about her death and even writing on Facebook that the teacher was “ the one absolute f—–g b—h that deserves more than death more than pain and more than anything that we can understand,” The Independent reported.

He reportedly brought along to school with him a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey to drink as a celebration of the heinous crime.

In messages exchanged with a friend on the social media site, Cornick “spoke of ‘brutally killing’ Mrs. Maguire and spending the rest of his life in jail so as not to have to worry about life or money,” Prosecutor Paul Greaney told a Leeds court.

He approached the veteran educator, who spent more than 40 years teaching, from behind and slashed her neck and back as horrified students looked on. Cornick towered more than a foot taller than his teacher, who never saw the attack coming.

Cornick chased Maguire as she tried to escape, then sat down amid the chaos and acted “as if nothing had happened,” the prosecutor said.

“He said that he had stabbed Mrs. Maguire,” Greaney said, the BBC reported. "He added that it was a pity she was not dead. He said to the entire class ‘good times’ and spoke of an adrenaline rush.”

The slaying was the first of a British educator at the hands of her student inside a classroom. Cornick later told a psychiatrist the murder gave him a “sense of pride.”

“I know the victim’s family will be upset but I don’t care,” Cornick reportedlysaid in an interview. “In my eyes, everything I’ve done is fine and dandy. It’s kill or be killed. I did not have a choice. It was kill her or suicide.”

“To describe his attack as cowardly hardly does it justice,” Greaney told the court.

The teen was remembered as a good student who worked hard. But his family’s divorce had started him on a spiral into depression.

The teacher and pupil had clashed several times during the school year, though fellow students never saw her treat Cornick any differently than his peers. One teacher described the high-achieving teen as “a delightful boy,”.

Maguire’s devastated family described the boy as “evil.”

“We will never recover from this pain and anguish,” her sister Denise Courtenay said, the BBC reported. “No amount of punishment can compensate us for what we have lost.”

“Every morning, I wake up and I pray that this is all a bad dream, just a split second of hope which quickly vanishes and the horror of the reality sets in,” said Maguire’s daughter, Kerry, according to the Independent.