Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats

A British teenager has been jailed for three years for making hoax bomb threats that closed hundreds of schools up and down the UK.

In March 2018, George Duke-Cohan emailed more than 1700 schools, colleges, and nurseries from the bedroom of his home in Watford, warning that explosives had been planted. The emails said that unless US $5,000 was paid within three hours into the account of US-based Minecraft server VeltPvP, buildings would be blown up.

Although the police said that the emails were not believed to represent any genuine threat, hundreds of schools were still evacuated.