Man denies plot to sabotage Boris Johnson's marriage ceremony occasion

Bea Swallow

BBC Information, West of England

Rebecca Fulton/Downing Street/PA Wire Boris Johnson standing next to his wife Carrie with his arm around her. He is wearing a black suit, white shirt and blue tie. Carrie is wearing a lace wedding dress with intricate detailing down the middle and on the sleeves. She is also wearing a white rose flower crown and smiling at her husband. They are standing on an outdoor staircase next to a bush with pink flowers on it. — Boris and Carrie Johnson held a marriage celebration on the Cotswolds manor in July 2022

A person accused of planning to make use of spray paint and superglue to vandalise Boris Johnson’s marriage ceremony occasion venue will face trial later this yr.

Tim Speers, 39, is alleged to have been discovered with spray paint, tremendous glue and crimson boiler fits on the Daylesford Property in Gloucestershire on 29 July 2022.

At a brief listening to at Southwark Crown Court docket in London on Monday, Mr Speers pleaded not responsible to having gadgets with intend to break property.

After getting into his pleas, he instructed Decide Christopher Hehir: “I wish to be at trial. I can not wait.”

The previous prime minister and Carrie Johnson had been married in a personal ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in Could 2021.

They hosted their marriage ceremony celebrations at Daylesford Home on 30 July the next yr, organising marquees within the grounds.

Speers is accused of making an attempt to break the venue on the eve of the celebrations

Steve Parsons/PA A view across a field showing four peaks of a large white marquee set up in the countryside. There are fairy lights draped in a string over the top and in the background there is a row of large, dense green trees. — Speers is accused of making an attempt to break the venue on the eve of the celebrations

Speers, of Fairfield Highway, Bude, Cornwall, can be charged with one rely of possession of a category B drug, hashish, and a category C drug, Etizolam, which he additionally denies.

He was launched on unconditional bail till his trial on 7 September 2026