Public schoolboy who claimed he was sleepwalking guilty of attempted murder

A public schoolboy who claimed he was sleepwalking when he attacked two students and a teacher with hammers has been found guilty of their attempted murder. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was dressed only in his boxer shorts when he repeatedly hit his dorm mates as they slept in their cabin-style beds in one of the boarding houses at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon, in June last year.

'The pupil's thirst for violence then saw him turn his attention to the housemaster, who was struck by a hammer but bravely intervened and stopped him in his tracks. 'The boy, who had a macabre interest in murder, serial killers, and violence, showed no remorse and naively thought that by concocting a story about sleepwalking at the time of the attack he could evade punishment.

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