A place at Cambridge University has been given to the British youngster who was detained in connection with the bomb hoax on an EasyJet flight.
He is a prodigy at chess.
British teenager detained for phony EasyJet bomb plot
Aditya Verma, 18, allegedly boasted on Snapchat that he would blow up the plane carrying tourists to Menorca, writing, “I’m going to blow this jet up, I’m a Taliban.”
After the alert was raised on Sunday, two F18 fighter planes were dispatched from a military facility in the city of Zaragoza in northern Spain to accompany the EasyJet flight.
Today, we can disclose that Verma, who was traveling on an easyJet flight with companions, is the son of a physician who grew up in the affluent Kent neighborhood of Orpington and went to St.
Olave’s Grammar School, a top-rated grammar school.
He competed for England at the world youth chess championships ten years ago, came in fourth, and received a trophy from famed Russian master Gary Kasparov.
He is believed to have won four British championships after that.
