Overview
- Jagger Strang, 18, changed his plea Wednesday as his Leicester Crown Court trial was due to start and admitted seven offences, with sentencing set for 29 June at Birmingham Crown Court.
- Prosecutors accepted his basis of plea that he had no intention to build a bomb and they chose not to proceed with the remaining counts.
- The case began in September 2025 when a college safeguarding officer reported that Strang had talked about weapons and plans to blow up the site, leading to his arrest the same day at home.
- Police searching his address found chemicals, homemade black powder also known as gunpowder, thermite, and a blow pipe.
- Investigators said his phone held a manifesto, searches about notorious mass killers, and instructions for bombs and remote detonators, and they credited vigilant staff and swift police work with preventing harm.