A bullied student has been jailed after he drew up a 'stabbing list' of his enemies and took a knife into his college.
Jimmy Ford had 20 names on his list of which his own was the last because he intended to stab himself after taking revenge on his tormentors.
He had endured a decade of abuse and snapped after fellow student nicknamed him Jimmy Savile and falsely accused him of being a paedophile.
Catering student Ford was caught with a three inch knife in his coat after another student, who had also armed himself, alerted staff.
Kye McKissock was number two on Ford's stabbing list and packed a five inch kitchen in his rucksack which he handed over to a tutor.
Ford was isolated in an office and gave up his knife after being spoken to by a 'respect officer' at Petroc College in Barnstaple.
Police found a copy of a stabbing list on his phone which he had drawn up the night before, Exeter Crown Court was told.
Ford, aged 19, of Torrington, North Devon, and McKissock, aged 18, of Silver Street, Barnstaple, both admitted possessing a knife in a public place.
Ford was jailed for 12 month in a Young Offenders' Institution and McKissock for six months by Recorder Paul Dunkels, QC.
He told Ford: "You took a knife with a three inch blade into Petroc College and had a stabbing list with 20 names on it. Your name was last on the list but the others were people who you say had been bullying you.
"You gave different explanations. You told the police you would have stabbed somebody in the leg. I consider there was a serious risk you would have used the knife at least to threaten, if not to cause injury.
"I accept you suffer from ADHD but you took a knife to college, which is a very serious matter indeed. Possession of a knife can very quickly lead to death or serious injury.
"It is a significant aggravating feature that it was on college premises."
He told McKissock his sentence was shorter because he had been responding to the threat from Ford and had offered up his knife to staff.
Sean Brunton, prosecuting, said both defendants took knives with them to the college campus on February 5 this year.
There had been a disagreement between him and McKissock over a girlfriend. McKissock alerted a tutor and handed over a knife from his back pack and Ford was then taken to an office.
He was spoken to by phone by a 'respect officer' from the college's pastoral care team and left the knife on the office table. He was arrested later and told police he armed himself in response to bullying.
Mr Brunton said:"There was a photograph on his phone of a list with 20 names entitled a stabbing list. McKissock was second on the list and Ford was bottom of it.
"Ford said he had been bullied since year three and wrote a list of names of people he wanted to stab. He said he had been wandering around the college with the knife in his pocket."
He gave contradictory accounts, saying at one stage he did not want to hurt anyone and then that he planned to stab students in the leg as they walked past.
Peter Seigne, defending, said Ford suffers from ADHD but had stopped taking his medication two weeks before the incident and his family were so alarmed about his mental state they made a doctor's appointment, but he committed the offence before it.
He said Ford never had any genuine intention of hurting anyone with the knife and armed himself because he was concerned for his own safety.
He said: "He has suffered a catalogue of bullying over many years and on prior occasions he was called Jimmy Savile and a said to be a paedophile. That is the sort of thing he had to put up with."
Brian Fitzherbert, for McKissock, said he had recently come out of foster care and is receiving help from the Empowering Lives project in Barnstaple. He only armed himself because he was scared of Ford and had no intention of using the knife.
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