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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Businessman plotted to intimidate lawyers with fake bombs, jury hears

Old Bailey
Jonathan Nuttall harboured a ‘great deal of animosity’ towards two barristers due to their work for the National Crime Agency, the court heard. Photograph: Anthony Brown/Alamy

A businessman with a “deep-seated grudge” against two barristers plotted for devices resembling bombs to be placed at the heart of London’s legal district to intimidate them, a court has heard.

The barristers were allegedly targeted because they had been acting for the National Crime Agency (NCA) in a case against Amanda Nuttall concerning suspicions of money laundering and other offences, which led to an order being made for the recovery of more than £1m of assets from her in 2019.

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