The pupil, who was 16 at the time, claims he was sleepwalking when he attacked two boys and a housemaster at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon - wearing just his boxers.
A public schoolboy at a £41,000-a-year boarding school smashed the skulls of two pupils with hammers as they slept and attempted to kill a teacher, a court heard.
The jury has previously heard the two boys were asleep in cabin-style beds in one of the school's boarding houses when the defendant climbed up and attacked them shortly before 1am on June 9 last year. 'You will remember Mr Roffe-Silvester says he was disturbed around 0.48am. We know the 999 call was at 0.57am.
Exeter Crown Court heard that the teenager had armed himself with three claw hammers and waited for the two boys to be asleep before allegedly attacking them Mr Dawes said the teenager also searched for, 'Killer kills victims while sleeping' and searched Wikipedia for notorious killer Arthur Hutchinson, whose name he used in online profiles.
Two of the victims were taken to hospital in life-threatening conditions. They survived after life-saving surgery
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