A prisoner who threatened to kill a Manchester Crown Court judge in what the sentencing judge called 'a slow and painful way' has been jailed.
A total of 32 letters Paul Reece wrote to Judge Nicholas Dean QC were intercepted - one included a white powder later determined to be a decongestant, a court heard.
Sentencing Reece at the Old Bailey, a judge called his threats to Judge Dean 'persistent and chilling'. Reece, 45, who also threatened to kill another judge, was already serving an indeterminate sentence for the public protection at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes for an attempted murder in 1996 when letters were intercepted by security staff.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk