Public schoolboy, who claimed to be hearing voices, sent to psychiatric hospital for motorway firebombing

A public schoolboy who caused £40m of damage to the local economy by throwing firebombs on to a motorway in England has been detained in a psychiatric hospital.

Public schoolboy, who claimed to be hearing voices, sent to psychiatric hospital for motorway firebombing

A public schoolboy who caused £40m of damage to the local economy by throwing firebombs on to a motorway in England has been detained in a psychiatric hospital.

Judge Keith Cutler described 17-year-old Nicholas Elger, from Winchester, Hampshire, as a "dangerous young man" for throwing the petrol bombs onto the M3 motorway on two occasions in September 2017.

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