Two teenage boys plotted to slaughter fellow pupils and teachers with firearms and homemade bombs in a Columbine-inspired massacre, a court was told. The boys, who were both 14 at the time of the alleged plot, were said to have wanted revenge for being bullied at their school in the market town of Northallerton, North Yorkshire. The “best friends”, now 15, who deny conspiracy to murder, allegedly drew up a kill list of targets they wanted to “obliterate” and “who deserved it”. Paul Greaney, QC, for the prosecution, told Leeds crown court that the boys “hero-worshipped” Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 pupils and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado before shooting themselves in 1999. He said there was a “strange,…

Source: The Times May 03, 2018 15:56 UTC