Rough and crumble at school as police quiz child over baguette attack

A pupil has been arrested for attacking a classmate with a baguette.

The 15-year-old attacker was quizzed by police after arming himself with the French stick at a secondary school. The unusual weapon was one of 80 seized by police from schools in Sussex over the last two years.

A 13-year-old was warned by police officers after an assault with a pillow, a 14-year-old attacked another with an egg and a tomato and a 15-year-old was cautioned for common assault using a baguette. One incident involved a 13-year-old armed with a piano stool and a xylophone.

Sussex Police, which released the figures following a freedom of information act request, said despite the numbers there was not an issue around weapons in the county's schools.

The full list of weapons seized from Sussex schools in 2006/7 - 2006: Books, a ruler, an extendable baton, a day planner, piece of wood, eight knives or daggers, broken bottles, apple, metal bar, pen, a piece of plastic, three BB guns, a pencil, a pillow, two stones, an egg and tomato, a pencil sharpener blade, a baguette, a pen, a bag, a hammer, a coat, sticks, three air rifles, a gun, a piano stool and a xylophone.

2007: An ice ball, knuckle-dusters, mobile phone, metal bar, pencil, pool ball, drumstick, remote control, book, apple, compass, table, pen, three knives or daggers, a steel toe-capped boot, two stones, a bottle, a cigarette lighter, badminton racket, a rock and a traffic cone.