A 19-year-old man accused of a bomb hoax at a Peter Kay show in Birmingham was removed from a court hearing after he began to undress during a video link, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Omar Majed appeared remotely from HMP Brinsford for a hearing related to the incident on May 1 at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena. During the session, he started removing his prison-issued tracksuit bottoms, which led Judge Andrew Smith KC to halt the proceedings and instruct prison staff to remove him from the video link room.
Majed faces charges connected to an alleged bomb hoax that caused the cancellation of a Peter Kay concert attended by approximately 13,000 people. Magistrates previously heard that he entered the venue without a ticket and suggested a bomb might be present, resulting in the evacuation of the arena.
The defendant has not yet been formally arraigned as psychiatric reports are still awaited. A further case management hearing is scheduled for 27 July, with a two-week trial provisionally set to begin on 3 November.
Originally published by UKNIP.
