Teenager Sentenced for School Attack

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Boy who attacked sleeping students with hammers at school sentenced to life

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The 17-year-old , who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was armed with three claw hammers.

He waited for the two boys to be asleep before attacking them at Blundell’s school in Tiverton , Devon .

The housemaster, Henry Roffe-Silvester , was woken up by noises coming from the boarding house and went to investigate.

When he entered the bedroom where the attack had happened, he saw a silhouetted figure who then turned towards him and repeatedly struck him over the head with a hammer.

The defendant maintained he was sleepwalking at the time of the attacks, which would have meant he would not have been guilty of attempted.

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