Blundell's: Pupil who carried out Devon school hammer attack named

A schoolboy who attacked two students and a teacher with a hammer at a boarding school in Devon has been named after a judge lifted an order preventing his identification.

Thomas Wei Huang, 17, from Malaysia, was detained for life to serve a minimum term of 12 years after he tried to kill three people at Blundell's School in Tiverton.

He attacked two roommates, aged 15 and 16 at the time, as they slept during the early hours of 9 June 2023, leaving them with severe injuries.

He also attacked housemaster Henry Roffe-Silvester, who suffered six wounds to his head.

The teenager, who claimed he was sleepwalking during the attack, was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court in October after being found guilty of three counts of attempted murder.

Huang can be identified after a High Court judge lifted an order preventing publication of his name.

A jury heard Huang, who was aged 16 at the time of the attack, used weapons he had collected to prepare for a zombie apocalypse.

Sentencing, Judge Mrs Justice Cutts said: "You knew the difference between right and wrong and you intended to kill those boys."

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