The 15-year-old girl charged with the attempted murder of a 14-year-old girl last month had wanted to get her own back for 18 months after the victim went out with her boyfriend, who was the father of her unborn child, a court was told today.

Police Inspector James Grech testified  that in her statement to the police, the girl charged with the attempted murder had told the police that her intention had been to seriously injure the victim and that she had stabbed her four times, three times in the back and once in her thigh.

The victim, Insp. Grech said, was with two friends.

The three were in Valletta and one of the friends received an SMS from the aggressor, who told her she needed to speak to her urgently.

The friends went to the aggressor's home. The latter asked them if the victim was with them, and they answered that she was and asked why.

The girl charged with the attempted murder (who cannot be named because she is a minor)  told them that she wanted to speak to her about her boyfriend.

All three of them, together with the aggressor's sister and cousin, went where the victim was.

The accused put her fingers into the victim's eyes and the victim pushed her back.

The aggressor's cousin told the victim not to push her cousin because she was pregnant and an argument, during which the attempted murder took place, ensued.