“I’m writing this before I do something big, something violent – maybe serial killing, maybe a rampage,” wrote Jagger Strang, then a 17-year-old woodwork student in Stafford, in July last year.
In the document titled “manifesto”, Strang wrote that he wanted to become “like the famous serial killers or mass murderers” he idolised.
Now 18, Strang was jailed last month for possessing explosive materials and bomb-making manuals, as well as vowing to blow up his college – a threat he later denied intending to carry out.
He is among a growing number of teenagers in Britain who have planned or threatened attacks against their current or former schools in the last five years.
More than 300 school-aged children were referred to UK authorities last year over concerns about their fascinations with US school shootings and extreme violence.
