Mum of Ellis Guilford pupil furious after son 'pistol-whipped' with BB gun at school

A furious Nottingham mum has blasted her son's school after he was "pistol-whipped" with a BB gun and drenched in blood. The mum of the 16-year-old, who does not want to be identified, has accused Ellis Guilford school in Basford of failing to protect her son after he was painfully cut by the object on Wednesday, May 15.

While she said he was hit with a metal BB gun, the school has suggested it may have been a plastic toy, despite Nottinghamshire Police explaining it had received a report of "a metal BB gun" being used in the attack. "I'd had a couple of missed calls from a number I didn't recognise and I was a bit unsure of answering it, and the next thing a friend of mine who has a child in the same school had also tried to call me - and she told me 'oh my God he's been attacked in school, he's been hit with a gun and he is bleeding'," the upset parent explained.

"He was hit over the head with a metal BB gun and had to have his head glued and go back in for an exam." The teenager's mum claimed teachers and staff at the school did not know where her son was and could not explain how he had been injured within the school's grounds.

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"I shot to the school in minutes and the woman in reception and she didn't know where he was, which was an absolute joke," she said. "When I saw him he had a bandage around his head and his shirt and everything was covered in blood."

"And no one could tell me what had gone on, they said they didn't know who had done it or where it had happened." The teen would have been pulled out of the school if not for his ongoing GCSEs, which he had to sit the day afterwards, his mum explained.

"The worst thing I've done is put my kids there, and I can't even take him out because he's doing his GCSEs," she said. "I don't want to send him back. I've never felt so awful, seeing the blood all over him made me feel physically sick.

"When I send him to school I think he is protected, but that's obviously not true and it's bang out of order." The mum was told school staff would call her back to explain what was happening next, but she said she was not contacted.

"Does nobody care about what happened? It's disgusting," she added. A representative for the Creative Education Trust, which runs Ellis Guilford, declined to comment on the circumstances of the incident and did not disclose whether the perpetrator had been identified, but said it was "confident" all its safeguarding policies had been followed.

Nottinghamshire Police said it was investigating the reported assault but no arrests had yet been made. “We are investigating a report of an assault on a 16-year-old boy who was hit on the head with a metal BB gun at Ellis Guilford School on Wednesday, May 15," a spokesperson said.

“We are continuing to investigate the full circumstances of this incident. As part of our investigation we have spoken to the victim and his parents and we will be liaising with them, and the school, as part of our inquiries which remain ongoing."