"In recordings of some of the calls, released by the Met police, Hart can be heard asking a call-handler what they would do if he had put a bomb in Guy's Thomas hospital. The call was an apparent reference to two separate sites in London that are managed together by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He could also be heard telling a switchboard operator at a major London hospital:"
"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. The venues targeted included seven hospitals, six bars, restaurants and supermarkets, two police force control rooms and a cancer information and support services centre."
"In 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. On other occasions, he claimed to have planted a bomb in a hotel basement, describing it as homemade and filled with nails."
A 22-year-old man, David Hart, received a one-year jail sentence in the United States for making hoax bomb-threat calls to numbers in the UK. A joint investigation by Scotland Yard and the US Department for Homeland Security linked 95 calls made from late October to mid-November 2023, 66 of them to London. Targets included seven hospitals, bars, restaurants, supermarkets, two police control rooms and a cancer support centre; attempts were made to call Westminster Abbey. Calls were sustained, sometimes nearly half an hour, included claims of homemade devices filled with nails, and prompted precautionary security responses despite some recipients’ scepticism.
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