The 16-year-old attacked three people with hammers at his boarding school in Devon.
BBC News, South WestThe boy said he was sleepwalking and dreaming when the attacks happened at Blundell's School
The two roommates, aged 15 and 16 at the time, were left with severe injuries and the housemaster Henry Roffe-Silvester suffered six wounds to his head. The defence had argued it was a case of “textbook sleepwalking” while the prosecution said it had been planned and what happened that night was not the actions of somebody sleepwalking.A student called 999 believing there was an intruder
Another student heard Mr Roffe-Silvester shouting and swearing as he fled the bedroom and dialled 999, believing there was an intruder.They had suffered skull fractures, as well as injuries to their ribs, spleen, a punctured lung and internal bleeding. Giving evidence, the boy who is now aged 17, told jurors he remembered going to sleep before the attack and then seeing the dormitory covered in blood."I didn't remember doing anything so the only rational thing I was thinking was that I was sleepwalking."The boy added: "I feel very terribly sorry for all three individuals because of what I did to them.
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