UK student gets almost four years for bomb threat

A teenager who admitted possessing explosive substances and threatening to bomb his college and kill his fellow students has been sentenced to three years and 11 months in custody.

Police found explosives at Jagger Strang’s home, in Stafford, in September. He also admitted accessing material on YouTube about the manufacture of gunpowder and how to make an improvised detonator.

Strang, 18, had been due to go on trial at Leicester Crown Court in May, but pleaded guilty hours before the trial began.

A sentencing hearing at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday heard he had “idolised serial killers” and had “a disturbing fixation with violence.”

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