17-year-old threw petrol bombs at motorists on the M3

Traffic makes it's way through dense fog between junctions 5 and 6 of the M3 Motorway in Hampshire PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday November 1, 2015. See PA story WEATHER . Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Traffic makes it's way through dense fog between junctions 5 and 6 of the M3 Motorway in Hampshire PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday November 1, 2015. See PA story WEATHER . Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

A teenager has admitted wanting to kill when he threw homemade bombs onto the M3 in September last year.

Nicholas Elger, of Winchester, was named yesterday by a judge after he was accused of causing 12-hour delays for motorists and damaging the UK economy by £40million.