Up to 14,000 ships cross the canal per year, including container ships carrying cars, natural gas and other goods, and military vessels.

Investigators accuse him of carrying out a targeted killing, pointing to evidence that suggests a long-held animosity towards the US healthcare industry.

The lights would dim, and up the main aisle would come Santa Claus carrying a big red bag.

But prosecutors maintained he acted with others in carrying out the attack.

Westminster Magistrates' Court also found Gonen and another Met PC, Stuart Price, 35, guilty of carrying out an unlawful search, amounting to assault by beating.