#old-bailey-trial

#old-bailey-trial

Michaela Boor, 29, sustained fatal injuries when a pallet containing more than two tonnes of bricks fell from a crane at a building site on Burdett Road, Bethnal Green, on 27 March 2018. Higgins Homes Plc is accused over her death, along with Thomas Anstis, 68, of Banstead, Surrey; Stephen Coulson, 69, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire; Dawood Mann, 60, of Ashford, Kent; and Alexander McInnes, 33, of Islington, north London. At the Old Bailey, the defendants all denied gross negligence manslaughter.

The US Embassy in London was plunged into lockdown and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after a bag containing wires and an iPad was left outside, a court heard. Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making a bomb hoax outside the embassy in Nine Elms last November 22. The court was told the defendant had denied intending to cause alarm, claiming it was just a form of sophisticated graffiti art.