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@cee-dee wrote:

Nonesense, young people say all sorts of things they have no intention of doing and although that lad said all sorts of things people NOW know he meant, at the time they were passed off as "just another teenage rant".

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Maybe the teenagers you know!

So rather than take note of the signs that were blatently displayed you'd rather excuse the lack of preventative action on a notion that "young people say all sorts of things"!

This is from the Judiciary summary:

"However, as he advanced through his teenage years, it
became apparent to some of his friends that his personality
was disturbed"

"He spoke to a number of his friends
about killing her and at least one other teacher at the
school."

"He told them he had taken to carrying a knife"

"By Christmas 2013 it was apparent to Mr Cornick’s mother
that her son had a problem with Mrs Maguire"

"he was exchanging messages with
a friend on Facebook in which he spoke of “brutally killing”
Mrs Maguire and then spending the rest of his life in jail."

"These angry feelings led to a confrontation of a sort with
Mrs Maguire in February 2014 when the defendant’s hatred
of his teacher was apparent to all those present at a meeting
at the school"

"he sent a message to a friend
on Facebook that said of Ann Maguire:
“…the one absolute **bleep**ing **bleep** that deserves more
than death more than pain torture and more than
anything that we can understand.”"

Now tell me the signs were not there or do we continue with this in the same manner as Baby P or Victoria Climbie where we ignore all the signs, tell ourselves these things can all be explained away and then wonder where it all went wrong and have nothing but sympathy for a situation that should have been prevented?!