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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris

Boy in alleged school hammer attack researched child killers, court hears

A chapel and main building of Blundell's school
The boys were asleep in a boarding house of Blundell's school when the defendant allegedly attacked them with one or more claw hammers. Photograph: R-Jay/Alamy/PA

A teenager who attacked two fellow pupils with a hammer while they were asleep at a private school boarding house had researched serial killers and what happened to children found guilty of murders, a jury has been told.

The boy, who was 16 at the time, sent one of his alleged victims an image of a character from the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre holding a hammer, Exeter crown court heard on Monday.

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