Overview
- Leeds Crown Court sentenced 32-year-old Markel Ible to 10 months in prison on October 29 for a bomb hoax targeting Sinai Synagogue in Roundhay.
- Prosecutors said he phoned the synagogue on October 6 from an unknown number, claiming a device would explode the following day.
- The threat was reported to police, the CPS charged him the next day, and he pleaded guilty on October 8 to communicating false information via a bomb hoax before being remanded.
- CPS senior prosecutor Ann Graham said the act was intended to "sow panic and fear," and the Community Security Trust described the hoax as "cruel and calculated" while praising the swift action.
- The hoax followed the October 2 attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Synagogue in Manchester, where worshippers were killed and the assailant, Jihad al‑Shamie, was shot dead by police.