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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emily Pennink

Man misses not guilty verdict over ‘graffiti art’ at US embassy

Emergency personnel outside the US embassy in Nine Elms, London (PA) - (PA Archive)

A man who left a bag of wires and an iPad outside the US embassy in London for “graffiti art” has been cleared of making a bomb hoax in his absence due to a “misunderstanding”.

The embassy went into lockdown and bomb disposal experts were called after the suspicious package was found on the morning of November 22 last year.

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