Teenager plotted mass shooting at Edinburgh school
A teenager obsessed by murder wanted to carry out a mass shooting at his own school in Edinburgh.
A court heard how the boy “idolised” the killers behind the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in the United States in 1999, which saw 12 students and a teacher murdered.
He repeatedly spoke about doing the same at his own secondary school – describing the “Doomsday” when he would “clear it out”.
But a large-scale police probe was sparked in the summer of 2023 after a social media photo of him at school in full combat gear and carrying an imitation gun caused panic among pupils and parents.
The boy, who also held racist and pro-Nazi views, had already been referred to a UK-wide programme designed to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
The now 17-year-old appeared in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow.
He pleaded guilty via his defence KC Shelagh McCall to a breach of the peace and a charge under the Terrorism Act.
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