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Bullied at school, planned to kill classmates: juvenile to be imprisoned in Hungary
The Miskolc Regional Court has sentenced a juvenile to 1 year and 10 months in prison and a two-year ban from public affairs for preparing to commit murder after planning to kill schoolmates who had mocked him.
Juvenile wanted to murder classmates
According to the statement, the defendant was a pupil at a primary school in Borsod county, where he was regularly teased and humiliated by classmates, which caused him severe emotional distress. Two years ago, the boy brought a knife to school intending to take revenge by killing them.
During one lesson, he took out the knife and ran the blade along his tongue. The teacher confiscated it and handed it to the headteacher, who then notified the boy’s mother. She collected her child and took him home.
Following the incident, the student did not return to school after being instructed by the headteacher to stay away. Two days later, he sent an online message to his form teacher admitting that he had brought the knife with the intention of killing his classmates. The next day, he posted online that everyone in his neighbourhood would “pay” for what he had suffered.
According to the press release, the boy also wrote to the teacher that he would go to school the following day and kill all his classmates. The teacher alerted the headteacher, and a police report was filed.
When passing sentence, the court considered as aggravating factors the defendant’s persistent behaviour reflecting a determined intent, the fact that the threats targeted students, and that the case disturbed public peace within the school and the wider community.