A man who left a bag of wires and an iPad outside the US embassy in London for ‘graffiti art’ has been cleared of making a bomb hoax.

The embassy went into lockdown, and bomb disposal experts were called after the suspicious package was found on the morning of November 22 last year.

Daniel Parmenter, 44, denied intending to cause alarm and claimed that staff at the embassy would know it was not an explosive device.

Parmenter, from Bayswater, west London, was found not guilty of placing an article with intent at the Old Bailey today.

The verdict was delivered in Parmenter’s absence in the dock as he had ‘misunderstood’ and gone home earlier on Thursday after the jury retired.

His barrister, Rabah Kherbane, told the court that he had spoken to his client who had been on bail and was cyc

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