Man held over threats to kill at Merseyside school

[reecematee]

[quote]Armed police were sent to a Merseyside school over claims a man threatened to kill there.

Officers were called to St Aelred's Catholic Technology College in Newton-le-Willows on Friday morning.

Staff and pupils were told to stay inside the building for nearly two hours and all entrances and exits were sealed while police investigated.

A 19-year-old man was arrested and a computer and imitation firearms have been seized from his home.

The alarm was raised after a threat with a picture of a gun was posted on the social networking site Facebook.

It is alleged to have been posted by a former pupil who claims he was bullied.

Parents arrived at the school, on Birley Street, after distressed pupils called them on their mobile phones.

More than 1,000 students were inside the school at the time of the alert, some of them taking their GCSEs.

A Merseyside Police spokeswoman said: "Officers were made aware of threats to the college in the early hours of this morning and appropriate measures were put in place.

"A 19-year-old man from Newton-le-Willows has been arrested on suspicion of threats to kill." [/quote]

I was just watching BBC news and saw this, he was also holding a note to /b/.

Source:[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/10294844.stm[/url]

[Oppy]

Derrick bird, and now this?

[carcarcargo]

Where in Merseyside did this happen, I live on Mersey side and to be honest, I'm not suprised.

[Kiwi Bird]

why exactly would they need to take his computer?

[Chrith]

Facebook seems to be a common factor of crimes these days.

[radioactive]

[QUOTE=Kiwi Bird;22540834]why exactly would they need to take his computer?[/QUOTE]

Computers can be used to commit crimes, it's standard procedure for police in the UK to acquire computers used by criminals.

[CjienX]

I wos buwwied :saddowns:

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[Thechuz]

Close to me :/

[ProboardslolV2]

The fuck is suspicion of threat to kill?

You suspect he made a threat? either he did or he didn't.

[creefer]

I understand why they would need his computer, but usually when they get warrants for someone's computer it usually includes the ability to use [I]all[/I] the information on their computer as evidence, not just what they're looking for. Then they can use anything else on there to charge him with more crimes, like let's say pirating (not sure about the laws on downloading) or something along those lines. Kind of sucks.