Teenagers ‘planned Columbine-style killing spree’

A PAIR of disaffected teenagers inspired by the Columbine school massacre planned a copycat killing spree in Britain, a court heard yesterday.

Loners Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, spent more than a year making elaborate plans to bomb Crown Point North shopping centre and Audenshaw High School, Manchester Crown Court heard.

The pair named their alleged plot Project Rainbow, wrote down their plans in diaries and used a mobile phone to record their experiments with explosives.