A SCHOOLBOY who attacked two students and a teacher with a hammer at a boarding school in Devon, UK has been named after a judge lifted an order preventing his identification.
According to foreign reports, 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.
Last week, he was detained for life with a minimum term of 12 years after he was found guilty of three charges of attempted murder in June following a 10-week trial.
The teenager was born in Malaysia to a wealthy family with a London home near Battersea Power Station and joined Blundell's in 2020.
In court, he admitted assaulting the two boys and the housemaster but claimed he had been sleepwalking.
However, a jury rejected this account and found him guilty of three counts of attempted murder.
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.
After the attack his parents flew to the UK to be told what had happened and accompanied him during the trial.
Prosecutor James Dawes KC said the youth had carried out the attacks in a 'killing rage' after he had researched serial killers and different ways to kill.
Prosecutors said the boy armed himself with three claw hammers and waited for the two boys to be asleep before attacking them.
At his sentencing hearing last month, judge Justice Cutts said experts could not say how long he would pose a risk to the public as she jailed him for life with a minimum term of 12 years. - November 2, 2024
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