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.
Weird kid in a private boarding school, withdrawn, perhaps autistic mostly online.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.
A neurodivergent at a private school would never stand a chance.
I agree, and the school should have been ready for that. There is no way they didn’t know this was going on.
British Private Schools:
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This article really requires a “white boy” before all the brits start burning hotels with refugees again
It’s a private school, so safe to assume there is a 0% refugee student body.
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…
Some put forth Herculean effort to be offended.
It’s not racist to point out the systemic biases present in systems. Private schools have overwhelmingly white students from affluent families. It isn’t right, but it isn’t racist to point it out.
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.
Crazy in the coconut
But what does that mean
Ableism is the ugliest -ism
It’s not ableism. He beat sleeping people with hammers. He could have zero disabilities and he’d still be a violent loon. No other autistic people are going around hitting people with hammers.
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.
The autistic part is literally in the article and was brought up during the defense
The article says he was collecting weapons for a zombie apocalypse, in this case crazy seems the most likely explanation. Pointing this out is not at all the same as saying you must be crazy if you do something violent.
Nah.
given his choice of weapon, i’m surprised he didn’t “stop!”.
I simply can’t touch this.
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Was his name Maxwell?
Why is everyone guessing what happened? Is there no way to get the court documents in the UK? I can request all documents related to a case for free here in Sweden.
…in prison? Or just sentenced to having to exist.
Bias in journalism amirite
Bludgeon School, terrible name choice
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