A TEENAGER responsible for a bomb hoax, which caused panic at more than a thousand schools, including several in North Solihull, has been jailed.
George Duke-Cohan, 19, from Watford, was responsible for an email warning about an explosive.
Several hundred premises around the country were evacuated when the threat arrived in March.
The teenager was arrested soon afterwards, but the following month he sent out another flurry of hoaxes to schools in both Britain and the United States.
An investigation by the National Crime Agency and the FBI found that Duke-Cohan had also made a false report about a plane bound for America being hijacked
In September, the teenager had pleaded guilty to three counts of making hoax bomb threats. He was jailed for three years last week.
Judge Richard Foster said: "You knew exactly what you were doing and why you were doing it, and you knew full well the havoc that would follow.
"You were playing a game for your own perverted sense of fun in full knowledge of the consequences."
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