King Edward VII Academy: Police find no threat at King's Lynn school evacuated over email bomb scare

Police are seeking the person responsible for a bomb hoax which led to the evacuation of more than 1,000 pupils from a school.

King Edward VII Academy in King’s Lynn in Norfolk received a threat via email on Tuesday morning, said Norfolk Police, and decided to send all pupils home.

Officers were sent to the scene and investigations took place "to determine the legitimacy of the threat".

By Tuesday afternoon, officers had left the scene "and there is no credible information at this time to say that this was anything other than a hoax", said a spokesman.

They appealed for anyone with information about the threat to come forward.

An email from Emma Tilly, the school's head of safeguarding, seen by ITV News Anglia, said that the school took the decision to send all pupils home "due to a suspected security risk".

She said police had told the school it was a "low risk threat" but that the school had a duty of care to pupils, staff and parents while investigations took place.

"Keeping everyone safe is our top priority," she said.

All pupils who live near the school were asked to go home. Others from further afield were offered supervision at the school site.

King Edward VII Academy is a school for 11 to 18-year-olds and has nearly 1,100 children on its pupil roll, according to its most recent Ofsted report.

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