Boy guilty of attempted murders in Devon private school hammer attack

Boy, now 17, attacked two fellow pupils as they slept and a housemaster at Blundell's school

A teenager who battered two fellow boarding school pupils with hammers as they slept and attacked a housemaster when he went to investigate the commotion has been found guilty of three attempted murders.

The boy, who was 16 at the time, accepted he carried out the assaults at Blundell's school in Devon but claimed he was sleepwalking and so could not be held criminally responsible.