Public schoolboy who tried to kill classmates and teacher with hammers named

A public schoolboy who tried to murder two fellow students as they slept before turning on a teacher has been named for the first time.

Thomas Wei Huang, now 17, armed himself with three claw hammers and ambushed the boys in their boarding house at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devon, in June last year.

Wearing just his boxer shorts, he waited for them to fall asleep in their cabin-style beds before climbing up and attacking them.

Henry Roffe-Silvester, their house master, was sleeping in his nearby quarters and went to investigate after noises from the boarding house woke him up.

He later told a court he entered the bedroom to the sight of a silhouetted figure who turned towards him and struck him in the head six times.

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