THE stabbing of a science teacher in Bradford comes little more than a year after Ann Maguire was fatally knifed at a school in Leeds.

Yesterday's incident at Dixons Kings Academy, in Lidget Green, left Vincent Uzomah in hospital being treated for a wound to the stomach.

It drew unsurprising comparisons to the attack of 61-year-old Mrs Maguire, who died in a murder which shocked the country.

Will Cornick stabbed Mrs Maguire seven times in the back and neck as she taught a Spanish class at Corpus Christi Catholic College, on April 28 last year.

Cornick, who was 15 at the time, boasted to his friends he was going to kill the teacher and winked to his classmate before he started the attack.

Afterwards he sat down and said "good times."

He later told psychiatrists he felt no remorse and added: ''Everything I've done is fine and dandy.''

Leeds Crown Court heard how he told other pupils he hated Mrs Maguire and the judge said he had shown a chilling lack of remorse.

The murder was branded a "monumental act of cowardice and evil" and Cornick was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison before he is considered for release.

But the judge, Mr Justice Coulson, warned him: ''It's quite possible that day may never come."

The killing was condemned across the country and in its wake The Ann Maguire Arts Education Fund was established in memory of the teacher, who was described as dedicated and exceptional.

The fund aims to continue Mrs Maguire's work of helping and motivating children through arts education and support is offered to projects involving music, dance, language and drama.

Teacher stabbings are mercifully rare in the UK, but in 1995, Learco Chindamo, 15, knifed head teacher Philip Lawrence outside a west London school.

The 48-year-old, who was protecting a pupil who being assaulted by a gang, staggered into a classroom at St George's Roman Catholic School in Maida Vale following the attack.

Despite paramedics carrying out emergency surgery and him being rushed to waiting surgeons at hospital, the father-of-four died from his injuries.

At the time, a spokesman for the school's board of governors said he was shocked and appalled at the sudden and tragic loss of such an outstanding friend and colleague.

Mr Lawrence had recently increased security at the school to protect pupils by installing CCTV and closing some school entrances.

Chindamo was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison.

The court heard he was the leader of a 12-strong gang who went to attack a boy one of them had fought with earlier.

Chindamo has always claimed another youth was the killer, in 2001 lost a bid to cut his minimum sentence from 12 years.