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Hammer-wielding public schoolboy who attacked fellow students as they slept named by judge

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A public schoolboy handed a life sentence for attacking two sleeping students and a teacher with claw hammers, while they slept at a Devon boarding school, has been named. The hammers used in attack at Blundell’s School by Thomas Wei Huang, 17 “In my view, there remains a significant risk that you could behave in this way again. During the trial, James Dawes KC, prosecuting, told jurors: “The investigation has uncovered an obsession that the defendant had with one of the boys, an obsession with hammers as weapons, and an obsession with killing and killers and the killing of children.” But one expert told the jury the boy would have been sleepwalking.

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