London Oratory School: Teen handed supervision order over fire

District judge Andrew Sweet gave the defendant a referral order for 10 months and ordered him to pay £100 compensation to the police officer he had kicked and a £26 victim surcharge.

He added that an assessment had been made that the youth was of low risk of re-offending, which he agreed with.

A statement from the school’s headmaster Daniel Wright was read out by Ms Mahadeo, which had been written in May, in which he said the cost of the damage at that point was in the region of £2m.

He said 1,105 pupils missed five days of on-site education following the blaze, and 360 pupils had missed 13 days.

Mr Wright said the school’s library and its 25,000 books were an insurance write-off, 11 classrooms were periodically unusable, and “significant amounts” of science equipment had been damaged irreparably.

“This incident has caused serious disruption to the school,” he said.