A failed asylum seeker who sought ‘attention’ by going to a school with an arsenal of weapons and a petrol can aiming to start a fire has today been jailed for two years.
Both Douk Deng, 21, was carrying a hatchet, a hammer and a seven-inch kitchen knife when he was stopped by police.
The alarming incident came after the South Sudanese man had been refused asylum three times and ‘become extremely frustrated in relation to his immigration status’, a court heard.
Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard how officers were called to the Edgar Wood Academy in Middleton, Greater Manchester, on August
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