A spokesperson for the police has confirmed the arrest
A teenage boy has been arrested in connection to a ‘threat’ made towards a school in Heywood yesterday.
Yesterday , pupils from Holy Family school on Wilton Grove in Heywood were evacuated following the threat. In an ‘urgent’ letter to parents, school leader said ‘we are dealing with an ongoing incident at Holy Family College and have been asked to evacuate the building’. Now, cops have confirmed that a ‘13-year-old male has been arrested’. He has been detained ‘on suspicion of malicious communications’, a GMP spokesperson added.One parent caught in the middle of the incident told the Manchester Evening News: "They didn't sound any alarms in the school and evacuated everyone other than the year 11 pupils who were sitting their GCSE's. They left them on site completing their exams.
"Once they had completed them they then evacuated and sounded the alarms. Children from all years were evacuated to the muga courts directly behind the school and left in the heat for over an hour with no explanation what was going on. "Parents were arriving to collect children to be told they weren't allowed to let them leave the premises, but held them on a court less than five metres away from the school. Parents stood outside reception with no explanations."
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