Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A man has been jailed for attempting to frame his landlady’s partner for inciting the terrorist murder of a police officer outside the Houses of Parliament.
Gerald Banyard, 67, sent two packages to police suggesting that Ian Anderson-Boles had links with Khalid Masood, the terrorist responsible for killing 48-year-old PC Keith Palmer in the 2017 Westminster Bridge attack.
Masood, 52, was shot dead by police after he killed four pedestrians with his vehicle before smashing into railings and stabbing the unarmed officer on March 22 in 2017.
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