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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Man planning ‘revenge’ attacks built armoury at Somerset home, court told

Wischhusen  wearing a police uniform and carrying a gun.
The court heard Reed Wischhusen had an image on his phone of himself wearing a police uniform and carrying a gun. Photograph: Avon and Somerset police handout

A warehouse worker obsessed with mass killings built up an armoury including a submachine gun and bombs at his “quiet” Somerset home as he plotted to carry out “revenge” attacks at his old primary school, a police headquarters and his workplace, a jury has heard.

Reed Wischhusen’s targets included former classmates whom he believed had bullied him, work colleagues who laughed at him, and Avon and Somerset police officers after the force refused him a firearms licence, the court was told.

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