A dangerous inmate who sent a string of graphic letters threatening to kill a court judge has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC was based in the city of Leicester when Paul Reece sent a series of intimidating letters both to him and another senior judge at Leicester Crown Court.
A court was told that the prisoner's, 45, alarming letter was intercepted by security staff, Leciestershire Live reports.He was already serving a jail term at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes for an attempted murder in 1996, when he sent the letters.Reece appeared at a sentencing hearing held on November 11 at the Old Bailey, in London, by video link from Belmarsh high-security prison.He threatened to kill Judge Dean, who has
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