Businessman ‘targeted lawyers with fake bombs’

Two barristers were targets of a fake bomb plot after they helped confiscate £1m from a wealthy businessman’s wife, a court heard. Jonathan Nuttall, 50, is accused of planting two packages resembling explosive devices at Gray’s Inn lawyer’s chambers on 14 September 2021. Andrew Sutcliffe, KC, and Anne Jeavons had both acted for the National Crime Agency in the recovery of £1m of assets from Nuttall’s wife Amanda Nuttall in 2019. Nuttall and his associates left packages designed to resemble…