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Anger over 'Columbine' prosecution

Columbine' plot prosecution accused of wasting public money Police and CPS face criticism after court clears teenagers of planning to carry out massacre at Manchester school McKnight and Swift leave Manchester crown court. Photograph: Dave Thompson/PA A jury took just 45 minutes...

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CPS in dock as 'British Columbine' boys cleared

News Source: The independent | 2 months ago

The Crown Prosecution Service was forced to defend itself yesterday against claims it had wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds by bringing two teenagers to court accused of conspiring to blow up a shopping centre then committing a Columbine-style...
Anger over 'Columbine' prosecution

News Source: The Observer | 2 months ago

Columbine' plot prosecution accused of wasting public money Police and CPS face criticism after court clears teenagers of planning to carry out massacre at Manchester school McKnight and Swift leave Manchester crown court. Photograph: Dave Thompson/...
UK teens cleared of Columbine-inspired murder plot

News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner | 2 months ago

In a stunning blow to prosecutors and police, two British teens were acquitted Wednesday of plotting a Columbine -inspired school massacre despite videos that police said showed them making explosives together. Police had even enlisted U.S...Both...
Matthew Swift and Ross McKnight: fantasists who raged at the world

News Source: Times Online | 2 months ago

He never knew his father, John, a toolmaker, who left home before he was born, or his mother, Debra, a violent acoholic, who died when he was 11 years old. He and his younger half-brother went to live with their grandparents. Matthew grew up an...
'Waste of money' as two cleared of Columbine plot

News Source: The independent | 2 months ago

Police and prosecutors were strongly criticised today for pursuing the case against two teenagers cleared of plotting a Columbine-style massacre at their own school. A jury took just 45 minutes to clear Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, of...
Teens cleared of massacre plot

News Source: News 24 | 2 months ago

Two British teens were found innocent on Wednesday of plotting to kill students and teachers in a Columbine-inspired attack at their school in northwest England. Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, were cleared of what prosecutors had claimed...