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Evening Standard
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Emily Pennink

Gray’s Inn bomb accused was ‘using loo’ when police arrived at manor, court told

A businessman accused of plotting to plant bombs in London’s legal district denied hiding a mobile phone in a chair after police arrived at his stately manor, claiming he was “using the loo”.

Jonathan Nuttall, 50, is accused of deploying his driver Michael Sode, 58, to act as a “middleman” with former Royal Marine Michael Broddle, 46, who planted the two devices at Gray’s Inn on September 14 2021.

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