Boy who threw petrol bombs on to M3 ‘wanted to kill someone’

Nicholas Elger, 17, faces custodial sentence if psychiatric assessment finds him untreatable

A 17-year-old boy who caused £40m of damage to the economy by throwing firebombs on to a motorway, causing a 12-hour closure, has been made subject to an interim hospital order.

In a hearing at Winchester crown court on Monday, the judge, Keith Cutler, described Nicholas Elger as a “dangerous young man”. Elger, from Winchester, threw petrol bombs on to the M3 on two occasions in September 2017.

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