London<\/a> that are managed together by Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 NHS foundation trust.<\/p>\nHe could also be heard telling a switchboard operator at a major London hospital: \u201cAll right, I put a bomb in you guys\u2019 corridor bathroom \u2026 You have exactly about 12 seconds to get out of that building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scotland Yard said the 22-year-old appeared at the US district court for the northern district of New York on 6 January.<\/p>\n
The court heard that from late October to mid-November 2023, Hart made 95 calls to numbers in the UK, 66 of which were made to numbers in London. While not all calls connected successfully, many did.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe venues targeted included seven hospitals, six bars, restaurants and supermarkets, two police force control rooms and a cancer information and support services centre. Hart twice attempted to call Westminster Abbey but he did so when it was night-time in the UK, meaning the calls were not answered,\u201d the Met police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn those calls, he typically told the person who answered the phone that he had planted a bomb at their location, which would soon explode. He would make multiple calls, sometimes days apart, to the same victims. The calls were sustained and persistent, sometimes lasting almost half an hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn other occasions, he claimed to have planted a bomb in a hotel basement, describing it as homemade and filled with nails.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although police said some of the call recipients were sceptical the threats were genuine, they still felt they had to take precautions. Security staff at some of the threatened locations searched their venues and one of the hospitals went into full lockdown while they searched for explosive devices.<\/p>\n
The court was satisfied Hart knew the calls would be received as the threats he intended them to be, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been jailed for a year in New York for calling in a series of hoax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}