device".

Police later said it was not a hoax but a "genuine mistake" and the person who left the shopping had come forward to apologise.

The incident caused wide-spread disruption in the city, with road closures and cancellations on the rail network.

Ch Insp Brinn praised the bus driver for "taking the time to report it".

Speaking earlier, bus driver Roger Patterson said: "Somebody told me someone had found a box with wires on the Nettleham bus.

"That's what people were saying but obviously I haven't heard anything official."on defendant's motion to quash the search warrant and suppress evidence and the ensuing trial. Chicago police officer Regina Brown testified that on November 26, 1990, she met with a confidential informant who told her drugs were being sold from the first floor apartment at 3604 West Monroe Street in Bellwood, Illinois. The informant had been in the apartment earlier that day and had been allowed to sample some of the cocaine that was being sold. Several people had been present in the apartment, including a man who was armed with a nine millimeter handgun. The informant named defendant as one of the people in the apartment.
Around 10 o'clock that night, Brown and her partner went to 3604 West Monroe and inspected the building from their car. They