‘Fake IED’ was fitted with a packet of dates

An accused bomb hoaxer sent London’s US embassy into a full security lockdown when he planted a ‘fake IED’ equipped with a packet of dates, a court heard. Daniel Parmenter, 44, said the items he left at the site in Nine Elms was ‘space age art’ and included left ‘gifts for the US Navy’ including a snare drum for a bandsman to play. He had bundled various items together with wires and tape and left them with photo frames and…