A group of four people who turned up at a court with a set of handcuffs and demanded to know where the senior coroner was have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to kidnap and falsely imprison him.Senior coroner for Essex Lincoln Brookes, who was not at the coroner's court in Chelmsford at the time, said he regularly has nightmares about the incident, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.The defendants had turned up at the court on April 20 last year, entered a room where another coroner was co

A group of four people who turned up at a court with a set of handcuffs and demanded to know where the senior coroner was have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to kidnap and falsely imprison him.Senior coroner for Essex Lincoln Brookes, who was not at the coroner's court in Chelmsford at the time, said he regularly has nightmares about the incident, Chelmsford Crown Court heard.The defendants had turned up at the court on April 20 last year, entered a room where another coroner was conducting documentary inquests, demanded to know where Mr Brookes was and said they were shutting down the court.