Boy who attacked sleeping students with hammers at school sentenced to life
Teenager detained for 12 years minimum for attempted murder at private Blundell’s school in Devon
A teenager who attacked two sleeping students and a teacher with hammers at a private school in Devon has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after being found guilty of attempted murder.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was armed with three claw hammers and waited for the two boys to be asleep before attacking them at Blundell’s school in Tiverton, Exeter crown court heard.
He was wearing just his boxer shorts and used weapons he had collected to prepare for a “zombie apocalypse”, the court was told.
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in reply to ShittyBeatlesFCPres • • •the ableist part is saying you must be crazy if you do a violent thing, when reality shows the mentally ill are far far more likely to be a victim than the perp in a violent crime.
edit: also, ya know, this whole thread of 'probably autistic' speculation.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •So rich kid with (probably) autism attacks two other rich kids in their…. Cabins (?) while wearing only his underwear with hammers and also a teacher that came to help. He claims he was sleepwalking. Badly injures them, gets minimum 12-life for the attack.
Every part of that story is wild.
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in reply to Cruxifux • • •That's not for a judge to determine.
Edit: While the above statement remains true, reporting elsewhere shows:
bbc.com/news/articles/c781p92v…
Sloppy journalism from The Guardian here.
Teen given life sentence over Devon school hammer attack
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in reply to Nougat • • •Aww, bless 😀
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in reply to Nougat • • •If the judge said it then it would have been established fact in the case. This can be established by evidence and found as fact in the case, or it can be part of the agreed facts of the case, in which case the court doesn't waste time hearing evidence. All it takes to become agreed fact is for the defence to present it as part of their case and for the prosecution to not dispute it.
In that context the finding of fact by the court is more than enough for the paper to report on it, and the two versions presented by you of it being said by the defence and by the judge, are entirely compatible with one another. Nobody is going to demand to see the boy's medical history to verify an uncontroversial point like this. That would just be a waste of time.
The papers presented it as stated by the defence and the judge, they said nothing false or misleading, and I don't see any problem with that part of their reporting.
Now, if you have an issue that it was reported because it casts autistic people in a bad light, the issue becomes whether you think it's something the papers should leave out. Well, the defence considered it important, and it became news. Not much we can do about that after the fact.
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in reply to Nougat • • •I don't get why this is sloppy. They didn't say he diagnosed him with autism, only that he said he experiences it.
You jumped to conclusions and are trying to blame them. I certainly did not interpret it the same way you did.
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in reply to EatATaco • • •The only authority cited in the article for this autism diagnosis is the judge. A different article stated that the defendant's attorney "told the court that [the defendant] had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder ..." That's far more trustworthy than the judge "saying" it.
Excluding that context is sloppy journalism.
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Was the teacher also part of the underwear that the boy was wearing?
Churbleyimyam
in reply to MicroWave • • •Wearing boxer shorts?
Where were his Thomas The Tank Engine pyjamas?!
Seriously though; while the boys at state school were a lot harder, if a posh kid finally lost it it was always something extremely psychotic like this.
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in reply to 3ntranced • • •It takes zero effort to be explicit. It would also lessens the misinformation potential.
Nice way of being racist; brown people can't attend a private school huh....
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in reply to Tabula_stercore • • •Given just two pieces of demographic info:
Devon.
Private school.
You're probably the only person on the planet who's questioning the ethnicity of the assailant, much less even giving it any thought or relevance whatsoever.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •This is actually a thing so I wonder how they disproved it
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in reply to MicroWave • • •British Private Schools:
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custom of young school pupils at British boarding schools being used as servants by older students, later decried as inhumane
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in reply to MicroWave • • •Weird kid in a private boarding school, withdrawn, perhaps autistic mostly online.
Reading between the lines there's a pretty good chance that the other kids were mercilessly picking on him.
The zombie invasion line might well have been an attempt to get out of premeditation that he didn't go and grab the hammers to kill them.
He's still squarely in the wrong and definitely needs to be pulled out of society for a very long time and get psychologic help, But I strongly suspect there are some things at play here that aren't being reported on.
Given I haven't met a lot of psychopaths, But I have met plenty of children who have been bullied until they snapped.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •...in prison? Or just sentenced to having to exist.
Bias in journalism amirite
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in reply to MicroWave • •"sentenced to life" says the title. Then they say "12 years minimum". Isn't this odd? I'm not familiar with Justice rules in UK, but the second sentence seems contradicting the title...
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