UK's biggest spammer charged with more offences

The UK's biggest spammer, Peter Francis Clifford Macrae, has been charged with more offences, including blackmail, fraud and criminal damage.

Macrae - who uses variations on his four names to provide a range of different pseudonyms - was arrested and charged at the end of November for threats to kill, threatening to burn down a trading standards office that was investigating him, and making obscene phonecalls. However, appearing at Huntingdon Magistrates court on Tuesday 14 December, he was also faced with a series of other charges including blackmail, transferring criminal property, criminal damage and running a business for fraudulent purposes have been added. He remains in police custody until his next court date in Peterborough today, Monday 20 December.