Teenager found guilty of attempted murder over boarding school hammer attacks
A public schoolboy who attacked two sleeping students and a teacher with hammers at a boarding school has been found guilty of attempted murder.
The 16-year-old was wearing just his boxer shorts and was allegedly “on a mission” to protect himself from a zombie apocalypse when he carried out the attack.
The teenager admitted assaulting the two boys and the housemaster at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devon, but claimed he was sleepwalking.
Exeter Crown Court heard the youth, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had armed himself with three claw hammers and waited for the two boys to be asleep before attacking them.
The two pupils were asleep in cabin-style beds in one of the co-ed school’s boarding
