FMT:
Life term for Malaysian
boy in hammer attack at
UK boarding school
Thomas Huang, 17, used weapons he had collected to prepare for a ‘zombie apocalypse’, the Exeter crown court was told.
Huang, 17, was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 12 years, after he was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder by the Exeter crown court on Oct 18.
A judge lifted an order preventing his identification today, the BBC reported.
Huang had claimed he was sleepwalking in the early hours of June 9 last year, when he attacked two roommates at Blundell’s School in Devon as they slept, causing severe injuries.
He also attacked housemaster Henry Roffe-Silvester, who suffered six wounds to his head.
The court heard Huang had an “unhealthy interest in violence and violent films” and used weapons he had collected to prepare for a “zombie apocalypse”.
The prosecution said Huang waited until his two roommates, who were 15 and 16 at the time, were asleep to initiate the assault.
The victims endured severe injuries, including skull fractures, a punctured lung, and internal bleeding, and the court noted that both now face “long-term consequences” from the event.
Roffe-Silvester was struck multiple times on the head with a hammer when he got up to check on the disturbance that had awakened him.
The case is the second murder case in a month involving a Malaysian student. On Oct 24, Teo Jia Xin, 22, was sentenced to life for killing her newborn baby by placing it in a cereal box and hiding it in a suitcase in March.
Teo went to a hospital showing signs of having given birth, but she denied having done so after being questioned by hospital staff. She later admitted to having given birth, and only told the police where she hid the baby two days later.
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