Overview
- Students and staff at Stafford College reported worrying comments in September 2025 that led police to arrest Jagger Strang the same day after a college safeguarding officer called the force.
- Officers searching Strang’s home and devices found homemade gunpowder, thermite ingredients capable of making around 1.3kg of thermite, a homemade blowpipe, a handwritten manifesto saying he planned ‘something big, something violent’, and instructional videos on making detonators.
- Strang pleaded guilty to multiple offences including possession of explosive substances, possession of information likely to be useful for terrorist purposes, threats to kill and threats to damage property on 6 May 2026.
- He was sentenced to a custodial term on Monday, June 29, 2026, of three years and eleven months with a further 12 months on licence and was detained in a young offenders institution.
- Prosecutors and the judge said the case posed a serious public risk but was not prosecuted as terrorism-motivated, and authorities urged that the quick action by college safeguarding staff and police likely prevented harm while highlighting how easily dangerous instructions can be accessed online.