‘Killer Clown’ with chainsaw spotted at Brunel University in Uxbridge

An unidentified person dressed in a ‘killer clown’ costume was seen running around the Brunel University campus in Uxbridge, on Saturday evening, holding a chainsaw and scaring students.

The clown was first spotted outside the student’s residence Mill Hall, where students were quick to take pictures and videos of the clown and share the news on social media.

One user tweeted: “There's a clown on Brunel campus, don't think I'm ever leaving my flat again”, while another one said: “Oh my, killer clown terrorising Brunel students”.

James Vardy, 21, student and resident at Brunel said that “the clown was just standing outside our halls of residence and was chasing some students with what seemed to be a chainsaw. I believe it was a silly boy who thought it would be funny to dress up as a clown and prank his friends.”

James Liuton, 23, Science student at Brunel also said he was ‘terrified’ to hear the news on social media: “I was shocked to hear about the clown prank at my university. It was all over Facebook and everyone was freaking out! I thought it was a made-up joke to begin with, because I had heard about those pranks before, but then when I saw Snapchat posts and tweets I was scared indeed.”

Terry Vass, Security operations Manager at Brunel University has announced that “this is a prank that has come over from abroad and it is happening all over the UK now, where someone jumps out in a clown suit to scare people.’’

The ‘Clown craze’ also knows as the ‘Killer Clown trend’ has been imported from the United States and it sees pranksters wearing scary clown costumes and masks and usually holding weapons in an attempt to try and terrorise the public. There have already been several sightings of clown pranksters around schools, parking lots and houses in London, Leeds and Essex.

Mr Vass also added that the clown prankster at Brunel University “could have been holding a real chainsaw, but if it was real, it unlikely had the chain, which is the sharp part, attached. The chainsaw was used more to make noise.”

The Brunel University Security Team has informed students and staff that they “can be assured we are doing our best to find this person with the help of CCTV and you have nothing to worry about on campus.”