Bomb Hoaxes at Schools in North and East Yorkshire
“Enquiries continue to establish the facts and forces are working together to investigate who is responsible”.
No reports of any arrests or further actions taken against the hoaxers have been seen at this time. They divert limited police resources and cause disruption and alarm to the public. The VeltPvP Twitter account responded to the emails.
In Bedfordshire, police had earlier advised that evacuation was not appropriate and that they believed the emails to be “malicious”.
VeltPVP is a player-verses-player server that sells in-game items and upgrades to players.
In its report on the day’s events, Sky News claims to have been in contact with some of the perpetrators of the hoax.
Brookfield Primary School in Highgate was evacuated on Friday after receiving a malicious email.
Officers are advising schools in the county that this threat is not real.
Hundreds of schools across the country have been evacuated after they were sent an email saying a student had been sent to school with a bomb.
Several bomb threats have been sent to a number of school across the UK’s capital city, according to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and British media.
As can also be seen above, the emails show an association with VeltPvP, a popular Minecraft PVP server company. The hoaxer summed up the actions of VeltPvP by saying “what that network has done is frightful”. “I hope this person gets caught”.
Schools in London, Humberside, Northumbria, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester, among others, all received emails.