Stafford teenager admits having explosives and making college bomb threat

A teenager has admitted possessing explosive substances and threatening to bomb a college.

Jagger Strang, 18, from Stafford, was due to go on trial for nine offences on Wednesday at Leicester Crown Court.

On the morning of the trial, Strang pleaded guilty to seven charges, including possession of explosive substances gunpower and thermite, and accessing YouTube videos about the manufacture of black powder and how to make a detonator from improvised materials.

He also admitted making threats to kill peers at Stafford College and set off a bomb there in September last year.

The court heard Strang had pleaded guilty on the basis that “he had no intention to build a bomb”.

The pleas were accepted by prosecutors, who said they would not be proceeding with a trial for the remaining charges.

The judge, Mr Justice Wall, said he would sentence Strang on June 29 at Birmingham Crown Court.

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