White supremacist who sent fake anthrax to Queen jailed for 12 years – The Guardian

‘A white supremacist who triggered a full-scale security alert after sending fake anthrax to the Queen with a threatening note saying “the clowns r coming 4 you” has been jailed for 12 and a half years.’

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The Guardian, 3rd September 2019

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High Court rejects bomb hoax barrister’s appeal – Legal Futures

‘The High Court has rejected an appeal from a barrister who was disbarred last year after being jailed for telling the government that the Olympic Games in London was at risk from terrorists with a nuclear bomb.’

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Legal Futures, 10th April 2019

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Student who sparked Newcastle bomb scare with artwork on bridge given community service – The Independent

Posted January 15th, 2019 in bomb hoaxing, community service, news, nuisance, sentencing by tracey

‘A student who sparked a bomb scare by attaching piece of art to a bridge has been sentenced to 90 hours of community service.’

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The Independent, 15th January 2019

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Schools bomb hoaxes: Teenager jailed for nationwide threats – BBC News

Posted December 7th, 2018 in bomb hoaxing, children, news, school children, sentencing by tracey

‘A teenager who sent thousands of hoax bomb threats to schools and triggered an American airline security scare has been jailed for three years.’

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BBC News, 7th December 2018

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Man jailed for making hoax bomb threat to avoid missing flight – The Guardian

Posted August 17th, 2018 in aircraft, bomb hoaxing, news, sentencing by sally

‘A man has been jailed for making a hoax bomb threat in an attempt to delay his flight because he was late.’

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The Guardian, 16th August 2018

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Nazi obsessive who threatened to bomb mosques after Manchester attack jailed – The Independent

Posted February 12th, 2018 in bomb hoaxing, news, sentencing, weapons by tracey

‘A Nazi-sympathiser who threatened to petrol bomb mosques after the Manchester Arena attack and who had an array of medieval weapons at his home has been jailed for eight years.’

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The Independent, 10th February 2018

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Man sentenced for threatening to blow up G4S vans – Crown Prosecution Service

‘A 20-year-old has today (29 September) been sent to a young offenders’ institution for two years for blackmailing his employer by threatening to blow up their vans.’

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Crown Prosecution Service, 29th September 2017

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Pensioner who wrote bizarre note threatening to blow up bank convicted of blackmail – The Independent

Posted August 15th, 2016 in banking, blackmail, bomb hoaxing, news by sally

‘A pensioner who sparked a bomb scare with a handwritten note threatening to blow up a bank has been found guilty of blackmail.’

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The Independent, 12th August 2016

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YouTube pranksters jailed after ‘terrifying’ fake art heist – The Guardian

‘Four men have been jailed for pranks filmed for YouTube channel Trollstation, including a “terrifying” fake art heist in the National Portrait Gallery.’

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The Guardian, 16th May 2016

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YouTube prankster Danh Van Le jailed for nine months for bomb hoax – The Independent

Posted March 22nd, 2016 in bomb hoaxing, internet, news, sentencing by sally

‘The co-founder of a YouTube “prankster” channel has been arrested for scaring the public with bomb hoaxes and staging mock burglaries.’

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The Independent, 21st March 2016

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Teaching assistant jailed over bomb hoax – Daily Telegraph

Posted June 5th, 2015 in bomb hoaxing, fraud, news, sentencing, teachers by sally

‘She sent an email from the pupil’s school account to her own account saying there was a bomb at the school.’

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Daily Telegraph, 4th June 2015

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Newport train bomb threat man jailed – BBC News

Posted January 29th, 2015 in bomb hoaxing, news, sentencing by sally

‘A man has been jailed after saying he had a bomb and would blow up a commuter train.’

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BBC News, 28th January 2015

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Stewart Jackson Fishponds car bomb hoaxer jailed for 20 months – BBC News

Posted November 25th, 2014 in bomb hoaxing, closed circuit television, criminal damage, DNA, news, sentencing by sally

‘A man who admitted a bomb hoax in Bristol after he doused a car in fuel has been sent to prison for 20 months.’

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BBC News, 24th November 2014

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Sheffield police stations bomb hoaxer Amanda Pinder jailed – BBC News

Posted May 9th, 2014 in bomb hoaxing, communicating false information, news, sentencing by sally

‘A woman who threatened to blow up every police station in Sheffield in a series of hoax calls has been jailed.’

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BBC News, 8th May 2014

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Harlow bomb hoaxer Nigel Flanaghan jailed – BBC News

Posted February 7th, 2014 in bomb hoaxing, communicating false information, news, sentencing by tracey

‘A man who phoned police and said he was going to put a bomb in a mosque and wanted “to hang Muslims in the street” has been jailed for 12 months.’

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BBC News, 6th February 2014

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‘Idiots’ cleared of threatening to blow up Manchester-bound plane – The Guardian

Posted November 29th, 2013 in bomb hoaxing, news, no case to answer, terrorism, trials by sally

“The trial of two men for allegedly threatening to blow up a Pakistani plane in mid-air has been abandoned after the court heard they were ‘idiots’, not terrorists.”

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The Guardian, 28th November 2013

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Hoax bomb threat bridegroom is jailed in Liverpool – BBC News

Posted October 22nd, 2013 in bomb hoaxing, guilty pleas, news, sentencing by tracey

“A would-be bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat to a wedding venue after realising he had failed to confirm his booking has been jailed.”

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BBC News, 22nd October 2013

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Ikea ‘bomb hoax’: Man facing jail over hoax call to frame love rival – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 1st, 2013 in bail, bomb hoaxing, electronic monitoring, news by tracey

“A man is today facing jail after being convicted of falsely reporting a Russian
plot to bomb an Ikea store, which implicated a love rival.”

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Daily Telegraph, 28th March 2013

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Chambers v Director of Public Prosecutions – WLR Daily

Chambers v Director of Public Prosecutions [2012] EWHC 2157 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 234
“A message which did not create fear or apprehension in those to whom it was communicated, or who may reasonably have been expected to see it, was not of a ‘menacing character’ within the meaning section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003. That provision created an offence of basic intent and, accordingly, the mental element of the offence was satisfied if the accused were proved to have intended that the message should have been of menacing character or alternatively, to have been aware of or to have recognised the risk at the time of sending the message that it might have created fear or apprehension in any reasonable member of the public who had read or seen it. Moreover, a ‘tweet’ sent via the social networking site Twitter, was ‘a message’ sent by an electronic communications service for the purposes of section 127(1) of the 2003 Act regardless of whether the tweet was read as a ‘message’ or as content on the website.”

WLR Daily, 27th July 2012

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Robin Hood Airport tweet bomb threat man wins case – BBC News

“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a challenge against his conviction.”

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BBC News, 27th July 2012

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