To Woolwich Crown Court, where the case against Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been thrown out. The Irish rapper, who performs under the name Mo Chara, appeared on a single terror charge after being accused of pulling out a Hezbollah flag at a 2024 gig in Kentish Town’s O2 Forum. But the case collapsed today after the chief magistrate deemed that the proceedings against Ó hAnnaidh lacked the required consent of the director of public prosecutions and attorney general within the six-month statutory time limit. After explaining the technical error, Paul Goldspring told the musician: ‘These proceedings against the defendant were instituted unlawfully and are null.’

Addressing the courtroom, Goldspring said that he agreed with Ó hAnnaidh’s lawyers, who had argued that the attorney gene

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