Disgruntled dentist threatened to stab and behead MP
A disgruntled constituent who tweeted his MP suggesting he would be “stabbed, shot, beheaded” during a four-year campaign of harassment has been ordered to be detained.
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A disgruntled constituent who tweeted his MP suggesting he would be “stabbed, shot, beheaded” during a four-year campaign of harassment has been ordered to be detained.
Seventy-three prisoners were condemned to death at the Old Bailey in 1835 at a time when there were more than 200 capital offences on the statute book. Nevertheless, all had their sentences commuted apart from two: James Pratt and John Smith, who were convicted of ‘the detestable and abominable crime’ of sodomy. The indictment stated
The Old Bailey has been evacuated after a fire broke out in a nearby building, causing all trials to be suspended.
A BBC reporter says there is a fire in a building next to the Central Criminal Court in London.
The prosecution deems it is not in the public interest to take the girl to trial.