• “We apologise for the failures in our reporting.” On 1 June a man called Darren Rigby was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for sending threats to three all-girls schools on Merseyside. In emails sent across the space of a week in January this year, Rigby told one school he was already “inside… hiding with a sword and crossbow”, claiming his intention was “to injure and kill as many girls as I can”. He said anyone who “tries to stop me will also be shot”. In another email he wrote: “I am on my way to the…

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