Trump and all 18 co-defendants in Georgia election case meet surrender deadline

Donald Trump became the first former US president to have a mug shot (Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Former US president Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia on charges they participated in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election have turned themselves in to a jail in Atlanta before the deadline.

After Mr Trump was booked on Thursday evening – scowling at the camera for the first ever mug shot of a former president – seven co-defendants who had not yet surrendered did so on Friday morning.