Briton of Indian origin given indefinite jail term

A former accountant,Mahajan had a decade-long history of courtroom outbursts including an incident when he threw a shoe at one barrister and threatened to shoot him.

Mahajan was given an indefinite period of imprisonment by the Sothward Crown Court for public protection after reports indicated he posed a high risk of serious harm to members of the legal profession.

He was convicted of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent following a three-week trial earlier this year.

Judge Nicholas Lorraine-Smith said Mahajan was the most difficult defendant he had ever dealt with.

The judge told him: “I have had extensive dealings with you,Mr Mahajan,over the last six months,and I have no doubt whatsoever that there is a very significant risk of serious injury being caused by you committing further specified offences.

“I don’t consider this offence warrants a life sentence,but the sort of revenge that you tried to take last October and the increasing intensity of your obsessional hatred of lawyers,and now others who have to deal with you professionally,persuades me that I must pass a sentence of imprisonment for the public protection,which means that you will not be released until it is safe to do so.

“This was an attempt to cause grievous bodily harm to members of the legal profession,simply because they were carrying out their professional duty.”

Mahajan said he had thrown water,and claimed that the acid was planted afterwards as part of a conspiracy to frame him.

He claimed that the British judicial system was “worse than Nazis”,and alleged that the system had joined forces with police,Government “agents” and the medical profession to tamper with evidence and make him stand trial despite being ill.

The judge told Mahajan that on the day of the attack “something had happened that made you determined that you were going to take your revenge on the legal profession which you obsessionally loathed”.

He said a psychiatrist who examined Mahajan felt he suffered from “ongoing paranoid beliefs about being conspired against by Nazis”.