Businessman plotted to intimidate lawyers with fake bombs, jury hears

Jonathan Nuttall and three other men accused of conspiring to plant devices in Gray's Inn Square, London, in 2021

A businessman with a deep-seated grudge" against two barristers plotted for devices resembling bombs to be placed at the heart of London's legal district to intimidate them, a court has heard.

The barristers were allegedly targeted because they had been acting for the National Crime Agency (NCA) in a case against Amanda Nuttall concerning suspicions of money laundering and other offences, which led to an order being made for the recovery of more than 1m of assets from her in 2019.