Teenager accused of text message bomb hoax

THREE flights to Dublin were halted after an Australian student’s text message triggered a major bomb alert in London, a court heard yesterday.

Teenager accused of text message bomb hoax

An Australian gap year student accused of triggering the bomb scare with a mobile phone text because she was running late for a plane to Dublin told a jury that her message was a “stupid joke”.

Angela Sceats, aged 19, of Sydney, Australia, sent a text telling her best friend and flatmate, Angela Forster, to “call the police and say there is a bomb on board” while she was on a train from London to Stansted Airport in November.

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