THE TIMES.
4th NOV , 1982
Informer tells of courtroom 'bugging'
Criminals bribed a cleaner to "bug" the Central Criminal Court with a concealed listening device in an attempt to interfere with the course of justice, according to an unnamed police informer who appears in the Thames Television programme, TV Eye, tonight. The aim was to discover, from confidential talks between solicitors and barristers, what a key witness in a robbery trial had said in a statement and the informer claims that the criminals "sat in a van round the corner from the Old Bailey listening in to the conversations which went on after the day's hearing had ended". The informer also claims in the programme that "jury nobbling" has gone on at the Central Criminal Court for 10 years.
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