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The King will place a sealed message into the baton.

This summer will be Gustavo Dudamel’s 16th and penultimate season at the Bowl before he passes his baton and leaves to become music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.

"I knew they could put you in prison, break up protests with batons, invent criminal charges. But poisoning with a chemical weapon?"

The court heard Officer B, who was described as the more experienced firearms officer of the two, deployed a stun grenade and then a baton round to try to stop Mr Ciolac's advance.

Before her 1994 Winter Olympics silver medal, an assailant struck her knee with a baton after a practice session.