Hammer attack at Blundell School: State student named for first time | England | News

The public schoolboy who attacked two sleeping students and a teacher with a hammer at Blundells School in Devon can now be named as 17-year-old student Thomas Wei Huang after a judge lifted an order preventing him from being identified.

The student, who was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder, was detained for life and sentenced to at least 12 years in prison.

The trial was held at Exeter Crown Court.

The judge lifted reporting restrictions during the sentence so that the young man could be identified.

However, this was postponed after Huang’s lawyers appealed the decision. Mrs Justice Cutts then ordered a stay of her decision.

However, court officials confirmed that no objections would now be made, meaning reporting restrictions could be lifted.

Huang repeatedly hit his dormmates who were sleeping in one of the school’s dormitories.

He then attacked host Henry Roffe-Silvester, inflicting six wounds on his head.

The boy told the court he kept the hammers next to his bed “to protect himself” from a “zombie apocalypse”.

He also told the court that he was sleepwalking when he hit the boys in the dormitory.

But police said the attack had been planned for months.

Huang was 16 years old at the time of the attack.

Huang carried out the attack with a three-claw hammer.

The two students he targeted, aged 15 and 16, suffered skull fractures as well as rib, spleen, lung puncture and internal bleeding injuries.

The prosecutor said the children were “lucky to be alive.”

Huang said during the hearing: “I feel very sorry for all three people for what I did to them.

“I feel so sorry for everyone, for the families and for themselves.”

Prosecutor James Dawes KC added: “The investigation revealed the defendant’s obsession with one of the boys, his obsession with using hammers as weapons and his obsession with killing, killing and infanticide.

“He had a reason to plan something like this, to think about it in advance and to be alert.

“He was using his iPad until just before the attack.

“Mr Roffe-Silvester said he thought the defendant looked like he was ‘on duty’ and then his face and body relaxed, he calmed down and he got down on his feet and squatted against the wall.”

The family of one of the victims said: “We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped our son recover, from the school community to the paramedics and doctors and surgeons who provided exceptional care while he was in hospital. We are forever grateful for your interventions.”

A relative of the other boy added: “I look forward to my family moving on now that the case is over and I hope my son continues to recover and has a good future ahead of him.”

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