School warn parents that ‘killer clowns’ have been throwing metal bars at kids
AFTER four clowns 'threw metal bars into the playground' of a neighbouring school, a headteacher warned parents the culprits could still be in the area.
Zoe Johnson-Walker, head of Winston Churchill School in Woking, sent an email out to parents asking them to tell their children not to walk home alone.
She wrote she had been contacted by "Area Office" and alerted "to the fact that four people dressed as clowns carrying metal bars have terrorised the children at Sythwood School, throwing two of the metal bars into the playground".
The schools are just under two miles apart.
The clowns are thought to be part of the "killer clown" craze which has swept the country, after first starting in America.
This bizarre craze sees people dress as clowns and try to intimidate and scare others.
The headteacher went on to write: "It is likely that these four people are still in the area and could try to frighten or intimidate others, including our students and staff."
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Sythwood School, where the clowns visited, did not wish to make a comment.
The first person to be charged over the "killer clown" craze was 18-year-old Connor Jones, who dressed up as a clown and hid outside a Welsh school.
Yesterday a primary school headteacher asked parents to collect their kids after a pupil was waved at by a creepy clown.
The youngster was walking to Hollingwood Primary School, Derbyshire, yesterday when he saw the sinister figure in a park.
And this afternoon police flocked to the gates of schools in Essex after an Instagram account opening on Monday threatened 20 clowns would visit them with knives.
Two 10-year-olds, who were approached by clowns carrying "weapons" as they played in separate parks are now afraid of leaving the house.
Drivers in Manchester were startled to see two clowns running at their cars on Sunday, and a mum-of-two was left with terrified children after one jumped on her car.
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And on Monday morning, an Instagram account promised 20 clowns with knives would descend on Essex schools this week.
The Sun revealed yesterday that the teenage son of an England football star has been suspended from his private school for making “killer clown” threats to other kids.
The lad was ringleader in a sick social media stunt that caused eight schools to be evacuated. Police were called in.
Jobless 18-year-old, Connor Jones, was one of the first to be charged and punished as the unusual craze grips the UK.
He was fined £90 and received a public order offence on his criminal record.
A criminologist has revealed why people act differently when they put on costumes such as a clown mask, as the 'killer clown' craze spreads.
The craze has even got so out of control that popular circus, Zippos, has announced its shows will no longer feature clowns.
The craze has become so frustrating for some, that they have formed Clown Hunter groups on Facebook to try and patrol the streets.
Yesterday, a group of pranksters appeared on Good Morning Britain to defend dressing up as clowns and scaring people, but distanced themselves from the people taking part in the current trend.
And a 10-year-old boy told the story of how he was chased by a person dressed as a clown and badly bruised after a rock was thrown at him.
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