LOOKING back to the week of July 17 to 23 in 2018, when two teens were jailed for their school terror plot.

Two “dangerous young offenders” – who spent months planning a massacre of their fellow pupils and teachers at a North Yorkshire school – are today beginning lengthy prison sentences.

Thomas Wyllie, 15, and Alex Bolland, 15, were impassive as they were led from the court room at Leeds Crown Court to begin prison sentences of 12 years and ten years respectively.

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During the sentencing hearing, the court heard how their obsession with the 1999 Columbine School attack in Colorado, USA, which led to 12 students and a teacher being murdered, resulted in them planning their own violent, “revenge” attack on their own school in Northallerton.

The two were found guilty of conspiring to murder students and staff in May this year, following a three week trial.

Wyllie was also found guilty of unlawfully wounding a girl.

In sentencing the pair, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: “Tom Wyllie, you had become fascinated by the boundless internet attention given to American school shootings, devouring content such as actual CCTV footage from the Columbine shootings.

“You saw yourself as somebody outside the system, someone special. You modelled yourself on the apparent leader of the Columbine pair, Eric Harris and Alex Bolland was to take up the somewhat subsidiary role of Dylan Klebold.”

A FORMER councillor who stole £46,000 from a profoundly deaf and near-blind man in his 90s has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Stephanie Todd, 57, a former UKIP councillor on Richmondshire District Council, targeted vulnerable Mr Wall, took control of his bank card and changed his will to make herself the main beneficiary, the court heard.

Mr Wall, who did not realise Todd was withdrawing amounts of up to £300 every few days, died earlier this year aged 98, just a few months after she was convicted.

In total she plundered the former telecoms worker and war veteran’s bank account to the tune of £46,000.

Judge Stephen Ashurst told her: “You were a forceful woman in your 50s who exploited that position to take over an old man.

“Mr Wall was told in January that you had been convicted. He trusted you and felt betrayed.

POLICE are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack on Russian former spy Sergei Skripal.

Officers think several Russians were involved in the attempted murder of the former double agent and daughter Yulia in Salisbury and are looking for more than one suspect.

A source with knowledge of the investigation told the Press Association: “Investigators believe they have identified the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack through CCTV and have cross-checked this with records of people who entered the country around that time.

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“They (the investigators) are sure they (the suspects) are Russian.”

Investigators are working to the theory that the substance was in a discarded perfume bottle found by Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45 in a park or somewhere in Salisbury city centre, the source said.

It is thought Ms Sturgess sprayed the Novichok straight on to her skin as it is understood she was exposed to at least ten times the amount of nerve agent the Skripals came into contact with.