“I snapped and said I was going to kill her,” Morton said. “I didn’t harm her, I didn’t touch her, but I said those words.
She spent three nights in solitary confinement in an adult cell block, and was eventually convicted of the lesser charge of threats to kill.
Morton, who spent her childhood between care homes and foster families in Nottingham, had confronted an older girl who had been bullying at the care home where they both lived.
In the interview, she said she was “incredibly sorry” about the incident, for which she was charged with attempted murder.