THE former owner of Bodenham Manor threatened to arrest prosecutors if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) did not supply information relating to a charge for trespassing on that property which had been brought against him.

Guy Taylor, now of Pear Tree Cottage, Carey, told Hereford Magistrates Court that the prosecutors working on the case were "clowns" and that he knew more about the legal documents that he was served with than they did.

He called for a judge to be summoned to court to produce documents.

Mr Taylor was in court testing the evidence against him on a charge of trespassing at Bodenham Manor to which he is pleading not guilty.

He is due to appear at Hereford  Crown Court in February in relation to the trespassing charge.

"Part of me is happy to go to trial,” Mr Taylor told the Magistrates Court.

"But there is going to be a lot of serious crimes committed in the building on that day.”

In evidence, the court had a statement from Colin Molloy, head of legal quality assurance with CPS West Midlands,  that said the CPS is empowered by the Crown and cannot be sued as individuals.

District Judge Cadbury dismissed grounds for abuse of process and told Mr Taylor that he would be found not guilty at trial if the evidence did not support the case against him.

He also set a date for a hearing on January 14 in relation to a new motion being brought by Mr Taylor under section 97 of the Magistrates Court Act.