A coroner told a trial that he feared for the safety of his family after a group of people ‘tried to kidnap him’ by turning up at his court.
Lincoln Brookes, senior coroner for Essex, said he received a series of ‘very bizarre’ letters in 2022 before receiving emails in April 2023 stating that ‘corporal punishment may be administered’.
He was accused of performing necromancy, the supposed practice of communicating with the dead...