A SCHOOLGIRL allegedly stabbed more than 20 times by a 16-year-old girl at a Blaina funfair told a jury she screamed for someone to help her.

Giving evidence at Cardiff crown court, the 15-year-old said she screamed and cried "please help me, please help me" and tried to fight off her attacker.

She suffered multiple wounds, the most serious of which was one to the throat which caused a collapsed lung and she was in intensive care at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, for two days, said prosecutor Michael Mather-Lees.

A 16-year-old girl denies a charge of attempting to murder her and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

She and another 16-year-old girl and a girl aged 13, all from Blaenau Gwent, deny conspiring together to wound with intent.

The 13-year-old and the second 16-year-old deny aiding and abetting wounding with intent.

The alleged victim - then aged 14 - said that when she went to the fair with a group of friends they saw the trio and heard someone say "Come on, which one shall we pick?"

Giving evidence via a video recording she said that later one of the group pointed at her and accused her of calling her a slag.

She ran away but was stopped, she said, and told them crying: "I want to go home to see my Mam."

Before being attacked she heard someone say: "This one", and a boy said: "Go, go, go."

She told the jury: "The next minute I was just running. I think she must have had me and stabbed me. I must have screamed. Then I was on the floor, she like dived on me, sat on top of me and stabbed me."

She said she was stabbed "everywhere" adding: adding: "She just kept coming all the time. I was wriggling, screaming, trying to get her off." The stabbing, she said, went on "for quite a while".

She added: "I was thinking 'Oh no'." Mr Mather-Lees claims that on the evening of April 12 the trio hatched a "bizarre plan" to seriously wound someone in the Blaina area. "They trawled for their victim and fulfilled their purpose," he claimed.

He described it as a "frenzied attack" in which the first 16-year-old repeatedly stabbed her with a four-inch knife. She had wounds to the left and right of her back, hands and wrists, a wound to the top of her head, to the throat and neck and side of the left arm and left ear. The alleged attack happened at the fairground in Pilgrims Park.

The case continues.