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Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Failed asylum seeker who made 'foolish' bomb hoax at MI5 HQ jailed

Brazilian national Julian Valente Pereira leaving a fake stick of dynamite at MI5 HQ - (PA Media)

A failed asylum seeker has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for planting a fake stick of dynamite outside MI5 headquarters on New Year’s Day.

Brazilian national Julian Valente Pereira, 33, made the bomb hoax at the security service base at Thames House, in central London, on January 1, the day after being given a deportation notice.

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