Four members of an “anti-establishment cult” have been given prison sentences for attempting to kidnap a coroner in Chelmsford. Mark Christopher led the group into Essex Coroner’s Court in order to try to stop the senior coroner, Lincoln Brookes, who they believed was “interfering with the dead” in April 2023. Matthew Martin, Sean and Shiza Harper were also sentenced for both conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. The four were jailed for periods varying between two-and-a-half and seven years.
The group claimed that they were attempting to overrule the UK judicial system by entering the court with body-worn cameras and handcuffs. During their trial, it emerged that they were members of an “organised pseudolegal commercial arguments” group. The group called themselves the Federal Postal Court, or the Court of the People, and developed “delusional beliefs” based on what they perceived to be the true meanings of words. Christopher was the group’s “chief judge”,
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