Unmasked, school hammer monster: Judge lifts anonymity of troubled son of top financial analyst who tried to murder two pupils and a teacher at £45,000-a-year public school then said he did it as he sleepwalked By Tom Rawstorne Published: 23:57, 1 November 2024 | Updated: 00:29, 2 November 2024 e-mail View comments For more than 400 years Blundell's School has offered a quintessentially English education. Surrounded by rolling Devon countryside, its old boys include a roster of famous sportsmen, authors and politicians – and even an Archbishop of Canterbury. 'Blundell's is the archetypal all-rounder,' reads a review by society-bible Tatler, which rated it as one of Britain's best public schools.
Of course, excellence costs and with boarding fees at £45,000 a year, it is increasingly looking to international students to fill its spaces. Indeed, one in eight pupils now hails from abroad. And, like many of them, Thomas Wei Huang came from a privileged background.
He was raised in Malaysia where his father Terence earned a fortune as one of the country's top financial analysts. And so it was he chose to pay for what he hoped would be the best education money could buy, enrolling his two sons at Blundell's. But 17-year-old Huang, the youngest brother, would never finish that education.
Instead, he is beginning a life sentence for attempting to murder two fellow pupils and his housemaster. UNMASKED: Thomas Wei Huang, who can now be named, tried to murder two pupils and a teache.
