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.