A 23-year-old man has admitted killing schoolgirl Christina Edkins on a rush-hour bus in Birmingham city centre.
Sixteen-year-old Christina was fatally stabbed while on her way to school on 7 March.
Phillip Simelane, from Walsall, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at a hearing in Birmingham Crown Court.
Three months before the attack he had been released from prison unsupervised, despite warning signs over the state of his mental health.
Christina was travelling to Leasowes High School in Halesowen when unemployed and homeless Simelane stabbed her in what has been described as a random attack.
ManhuntHe was sitting behind the teenager on the upper deck of the Number 9 bus and stabbed her in the chest as he walked past to get off.
A post-mortem examination found she died from a single stab wound.
Simelane was arrested just hours after the attack following an extensive manhunt.
He had previously been in prison for threatening his own mother with a knife.
West Midlands Police said they had been called to his mother's address in Walsall about 20 times.
Just seven days after completing a 101-day prison term he was convicted for interfering with a vehicle and possession of cocaine, before being released from jail on 13 December 2012.
But, according to the police, because the crimes were deemed minor offences there was no policy to monitor Simelane after he left jail.
During his time in prison, concerns were raised about his mental health and notes were put on his police file for suicide and self-harming, as well as for violence and weapons use, following the incident with his mother.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provided psychiatric assessments for Simelane during his prison term.
It said it was conducting an external review, commissioned by Birmingham Cross City Clinical Commissioning Group, on behalf of all agencies involved in treating him.
The review is expected to report its findings in December.
'Hidden knife'Supt Richard Baker, who led the initial police investigation, said other reviews were now taking place to determine what, if anything, could have been done to prevent Christina's death.
In court, Simelane, wearing a grey suit, white shirt and blue tie, entered his plea in front of more than 30 of Christina's friends and family, many wearing purple ribbons - Christina's favourite colour.
Prosecutor Peter Grieves-Smith said CCTV captured Simelane carrying a white plastic bag containing what prosecutors said was a knife, 10 to 12 inches in length.
"Christina Edkins boarded just after 7.30am and went upstairs and sat on her own," he said.
"Within seconds the defendant got up and moved forwards three seats and pulled out the knife, which he then hid."
Simelane then got up and walked forward towards where Christina was sitting, "leant closer to her", stabbed her and started to walk off, the court heard.
"Such was the nature of the attack, nobody else on the upper deck realised what had happened until Christina reacted," Mr Grieves-Smith said.
Following her death friends gathered by Hagley Road in Birmingham to lay flowers in Christina's memory, while many more were left outside her school's gates.
A memorial garden dedicated to Christina is due to be opened at her former school on Thursday.
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