I can’t go to court… I’m claustrophobic

An Algerian accused of supplying fake identity documents has failed to appear in court because he suffers from claustrophobia and could not get in the prison van. Boualem Benouaret, 43, was allegedly part of an international ‘supply chain’ providing stolen and forged documents to the criminal underworld from a house in Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, north London. He was due to attend Southwark Crown Court today but was not produced because he refused to get in the prison van, according…