(LifeSiteNews) — A UK trans activist has been sentenced to jail time after he sent emails to three all-girls schools threatening to “shoot and stab all of your girls” in revenge for alleged “oppression” of “trans women” — that is, trans-identifying men.

On June 1, 21-year-old Darren Rigby was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for sending threats to Holly Lodge Girl’s College and The Belvedere Academy in Liverpool and Greenbank High School in Southport. Holly Lodge’s Girl’s College got the threats on January 19, triggering a lockdown. Greenbank got a similar email on January 23, Belvedere on January 26.

Rigby, who confessed to the threats in court, is also subject to a restraining order for all three schools. He appeared to have had no prior contact with the schools or anyone affiliated with them; he had targeted them merely because they were girls-only institutions. He was also sentenced for possession of cannabis and a weapon.

Oddly, almost none of the mainstream coverage — including the BBC — gives any details of Rigby’s threats, referring to them only as “hoax emails.” Reduxx reported that the messages included a threat to “shoot and stab all of your girls” and referred to the female students as “TERFs” (trans exclusionary radical feminists):

In the first incident, which occurred on January 19, Rigby claimed he was already hiding inside the Holly Lodge Girls’ College in West Derby and waiting to attack. The only way to prevent students from being slaughtered, Rigby said, would be for the women and girls to make a public apology to “trans women.” Police were called and the school was forced to shut down for the day.

In the email to Greenbank High School, Rigby once again threatened to massacre girls in revenge for “misgendering trans women like me,” writing:

I am on my way to the school with a revolver and a machete and I’m going to shoot and stab all of your girls. You TERFs are going to learn to stop mocking, deadnaming and misgendering transwomen like me. If anyone attempts to stop me, they will be shot and I will release a blood agent into the school which will poison you.”

According to head teacher Davina Aspinall, the email made her feel “physically sick” and “children were crying, shaking, asking if they were going to be harmed, asking if the threat was real.” The final email, sent to Belvedere, was similarly graphic and also triggered a lockdown:

I have managed to gain access to the school and I’m now hiding somewhere in the school with a crossbow and a sword. When your girls come into school I will be jumping out. I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across.

Although Rigby clearly claimed to be a “transwoman” in his emails, the court identified him as male — which did not stop his defense attorney from referring to his transgender identity in an attempt to sympathetically contextualize his crimes.

“It’s clear from the defendant’s own admissions, the difficulties of internal struggles he felt led to the impulsive responses in sending these messages … (but) his issues with injustice, turmoil and confrontation with himself were heightened by cannabis use and heavy alcohol consumption,” she told the Court. “It is not pleasant for any person to hear whispers from others calling them names, putting them in boxes and stereotyping them. That is something Mr. Rigby needs to come to terms with and understand how to deal with.”

In other words, Rigby’s crimes were fueled by his belief that “injustice” was being done to trans-identifying people and that “misgendering” or “deadnaming” were unfortunate triggers for a volatile young man. This, too, was ignored in virtually all of the mainstream media coverage — as well as how Rigby might have been radicalized into believing that violence against girls on behalf of the transgender cause was justified.

“I sincerely hope that our investigation and the arrest of Rigby only days after the third incident was reported shows how extremely seriously we take these reports,” Detective Chief Inspector John Black stated. “Rigby clearly intended to cause fear and alarm not only for staff and children at the three schools but also parents and the wider community.”