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		</div><p>A teenager inspired by the Columbine High School massacre has been jailed after making bogus bomb threats to hundreds of UK schools and sparking an airport security scare.</p>
<p>George Duke-Cohan twice targeted schools in the UK and US with hoax messages that triggered evacuations, before phoning in a fake report of a hijacked aircraft while under investigation.</p>
<p>The 19-year-old, of Watford, Hertfordshire, emailed Marlborough College – the Wiltshire school attended by the Duchess of Cambridge – and referred to the Columbine High School shooting. He was jailed for three years by Judge Richard Foster at Luton Crown Court on Friday.</p>
<p>The Recorder of Luton told him: “You knew exactly what you were doing and why you were doing it, and you knew full well the havoc that would follow. “You were playing a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities.</p>
<p>“You were playing a game for your own perverted sense of fun in full knowledge of the consequences.”<br />
In his sentencing remarks, the judge added: “The scale of what you did was enormous.<br />
“Schools were evacuated and, where they were not, those in charge had to take agonising decisions.</p>
<p>“The passengers and crew on that flight on 9th August must have been terrified when their plane was taken to a quarantined area, and, apart from the financial cost, the onward travelling plans and connecting flights would have been in disarray.”</p>
<p>The teenager appeared from custody wearing a grey jumper with a navy collar. He pleaded guilty to three counts of making hoax bomb threats in September. Duke-Cohan, who was doing an IT course, first created panic in March 2018 when he emailed thousands of schools in the UK warning about an explosive.</p>
<p>The National Crime Agency said more than 400 schools were evacuated as a result.<br />
Prosecutor Rebecca Austin said he sent emails to more than 1,700 schools in the UK between March 16 and 19 this year.</p>
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