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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Boy guilty of attempted murders in Devon private school hammer attack

Exterior of Blundell's school
Blundell’s school. The prosecution said the teenager carried out the attacks in a ‘killing rage’ after researching methods of murder. Photograph: R-Jay/Alamy/PA

A teenager who battered two fellow boarding school pupils with hammers as they slept and attacked a housemaster when he went to investigate the commotion has been found guilty of three attempted murders.

The boy, who was 16 at the time, accepted he carried out the assaults at Blundell’s school in Devon but claimed he was sleepwalking and so could not be held criminally responsible.

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