A man caused terror in court after slashing his own throat in court with a smuggled craft knife blade.
Gary Bell, 20, took the drastic action after being handed down a 16-week sentence from District Judge, Michael Fanning.
A court source who didn’t want to be named, said: “Vanessa Jones was prosecuting the case when it all kicked off and the judge sentenced him.
“Apparently he’d smuggled a craft knife blade into court by wrapping it in Rizla cigarette papers before putting it into the plastic tray for security staff.”
The court has a sizeable team of security officers who ensure all defendants walk through a scanner and who are asked to put anything metallic in a tray.
An HM Courts & Tribunals Service Spokesperson said: “We are urgently investigating this incident.”
Shocked staff at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court in Huddersfield dialled 999 while security officer ‘Barney’ suffered minor injuries in the ensuing fracas, the Huddersfield Examiner reports.
Ambulances and police cars raced to the scene and parked up on the busy ring road following the incident which occurred at 2.54pm in Court Two.
Paramedics were called into the building and minutes later, the injured man was brought out of the courtroom on a trolley and helped into a waiting ambulance.
He was taken to hospital.
Source: Mirror