Blundell's hammer attacker who tried to kill fellow pupils unmasked for the first time

This is the face of a schoolboy who tried to kill two sleeping pupils and a teacher at a private school in Devon. Thomas Huang, 17, was jailed for life after being found guilty of three counts of attempted murder.

He launched the horror hammer attack at the £41k-a-year Blundell's School, in Tiverton, on June 9 last year. Exeter Crown Court heard how two of his victims were rushed to hospital with life-threatening conditions and will never fully recover.

The adult victim Henry Roffe-Silvester, 38, a member of staff at the school and the housemaster of the dorm, was also taken to hospital. He was later discharged.

Huang was given a minimum sentence of 12 years imprisonment before parole could be considered at his hearing at court last month. The jury was told he accepted carrying out the attacks but denied three counts of attempted murder as he was 'sleepwalking'.

However, he was found guilty after a two-month on all three counts of attempted murder by a majority verdict. Judge Mrs Justice Cutts took into account that he was on the autistic spectrum and had been the victim of an online 'sextortion scam' in the lead-up to violent assaults. But she said only a life sentence would be appropriate in his case.

The judge said: "I accept that you were under stress. "It nonetheless remains the case that you knew the difference between right and wrong. And that you had planned to kill these boys and obtained hammers for use as weapons.

"You had a fixed mindset and expressed desires before the offences to own weapons, commit crimes of serious violence with hammers and to be a serial killer. In my view, a life sentence is required in your case."