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Tristan Kirk

Wealthy businessman with a grudge ‘targeted barristers in bomb plot after High Court battle’

A senior barrister was the target of a bomb plot in the heart of London’s legal district because of a “deep-seated grudge” from a £1 million High Court battle, the Old Bailey has heard.

Andrew Sutcliffe KC and his junior colleague Anne Jeavons were put under surveillance before packages designed to resemble explosive devices were left near to their offices, it is said.

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