Sentence delay for 'paranoid' Pudsey woman who sent Buckingham Palace bomb tweet
A woman will be sentenced early next year after a trial found she was responsible for posting a message about a bomb being sent to Buckingham Palace.
Diane Durham was declared unfit to stand trial, resulting in a trial of fact being held in her absence.
Trials of fact mean a defendant does not take part, but a jury will decide if they committed the act without determining guilt or innocence.
A jury found that she had communicated false information with intent by sending the message in May of last year.
The 63-year-old was due to be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court this week, but it was heard reports were still outstanding from liaison and diversion, probation and her doctors, who are seeking to conduct a temporal lobe scan of her brain.
Her sentencing was adjourned until January 30.
Durham sent out the message on X, formerly Twitter, on May 17 last year, suggesting a “thing liable to explode” was travelling to Buckingham Palace on a train.
During previous hearings, the court was told that Durham had paranoid delusions about being watched by the authorities.
She previously pleaded not guilty to the charge of communicating false information to the Metropolitan Police.
Durham, of Church Lane, Pudsey, underwent extensive assessments by two psychiatrists who both concluded that she was unfit to stand trial.
One suggested she suffers with a psychotic disorder and has “fixed beliefs that she is being pursued by intelligence agencies”.
The court previously heard that she has been placed on anti-psychotic medication and was improving.