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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Anti-vaxxer on terror charges 'used Telegram to call for attacks on nurses and teachers'

An anti-vaxxer used the social media app Telegram to call for bomb attacks on pharmaceutical firms and “unbridled violence” against nurses and teachers over the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination, the Old Bailey has heard.

Patrick Ruane, 54, spent months in 2021 encouraging thousands online to violently oppose the vaccine, it is said, using Telegram channels devoted to opposing the government’s pandemic lockdown measures.

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