US EditionUS Embassy bomb threat device was 'sophisticated graffiti art', court hears
Daniel Parmenter denies intent to cause alarm, claiming the suspicious items were 'sophisticated graffiti art,' while the embassy lockdown involved bomb disposal experts and road closures.
- At around 6am on November 22, a civilian guard found a bag with wires and an iPad in an alley by the US Embassy in Nine Elms, prompting a lockdown and controlled explosion.
- Daniel Parmenter, 44, denied intending to cause alarm in a police interview, calling the placements an `art installation` and saying `It is basically a form of slightly sophisticated graffiti art of the non-vandal type.`
- Photographs and CCTV showed an old-style iPad with keypad and firework wires taped, alongside a silver baking tray with skull and crossbones, a drum, and framed poetry.
- Following CCTV review, police identified Parmenter and arrested him two days later at the home he shares with his mother, where officers searched his basement flat described as a `hoarder's property` and found an apparent petrol-bomb/pipe-bomb item explosives officers later deemed not viable.
- Parmenter told officers he had left other `gifts` at places on Halloween, including a framed print relating to 9/11 and a framed toolkit said to be for the US Navy, while the trial turns on the legal question of intent.
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Bag of Wires Sparked Bomb Alert at US Embassy in London, Court Told
The US Embassy in London went into lockdown and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after a bag containing wires and an iPad was left outside, a court has heard. Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making a bomb hoax 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”. Opening his trial on Monday, prosec…
Bag of wires sparked bomb alert at US Embassy in London, court told
Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making a bomb hoax last November 22. The US Embassy in London went into lockdown and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion after a bag containing wires and an iPad was left outside, a court has heard. Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making a bomb hoax last November 22. The court was told the defendant had denied intending to cause ala…
US Embassy Bomb Threat Device Was 'sophisticated Graffiti Art', Court Hears
Daniel Parmenter, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of making a bomb hoax on 22 November last year. The US Embassy, in Nine Elms, south London, went into lockdown, and bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled explosion, after a bag containing wires and an iPad was left outside, the court heard. Mr Parmenter has denied intending to cause alarm. He claimed in a formal police interview that it was an “art installation”, the court was…
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