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		</div><p>A young Briton accused of attempting to grab a police officer&#8217;s gun in a bid to kill Donald Trump has appeared in a US court in shackles.</p>
<p>Michael Steven Sandford, from Dorking in Surrey, was arrested at a rally in a Las Vegas casino on Saturday after going for the weapon as he asked for the presidential hopeful&#8217;s autograph.</p>
<p>The 20-year-old, who was in America without permission, later told police he wanted to kill the presumptive Republican nominee, according to the Secret Service.</p>
<p>Sandford, who is said to have autism, told investigators he expected to die in the attempt, which he had been planning for a year.</p>
<p>He arrived in the city on Friday, when he went to a local shooting range where he reportedly learned how to use a gun for the first time.</p>
<p>On Monday, Sandford was denied bail at a district court in Nevada, where he appeared charged with an act of violence on restricted grounds.</p>
<p>Federal Magistrate Judge George Foley declined to release Sandford, who appeared before him in leg irons, over concerns that he was a potential danger to the community and a flight risk.</p>
<p>He will appear in court again on July 5.</p>
<p>A federal public defender told the court that Sandford was autistic yet competent, although he did not enter a plea.<br />
His mother, who has not been named, told the judge he had a history of mental health problems.</p>
<p>According to court research, Sandford did not have permission to be in the US after overstaying a visa and was unemployed. Papers filed at the court said he had been in the country for around 18 months and lived in Hoboken, New Jersey.</p>
<p>He had driven across the US to San Bernardino, California, and had been living out of his car before travelling on to Las Vegas on Thursday.</p>
<p>On Friday, he visited the Battlefield Vegas shooting range where he practised using a 9mm Glock pistol, firing off 20 rounds.</p>
<p>The following day he went to the Treasure Island Casino where Mr Trump was addressing a rally of 1,500 supporters amid tight security.</p>
<p>Attendees had to pass through metal detectors manned by Secret Service, police and casino security officials.</p>
<p>One of those in the crowd, Gregg Donovan, said he had briefly spoken to Sandford while they queued and he seemed &#8220;strange&#8221;.</p>
<p>When he later asked to get an autograph from the billionaire, Sandford allegedly attempted to take a police officer&#8217;s holstered gun before being tackled and frogmarched from the venue.</p>
<p>A Secret Service report said Sandford told officers he had been planning the assassination for around 12 months and believed he would die in the process.</p>
<p>He had also bought a ticket to a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, for later on Saturday as a back-up.</p>
<p>Sandford was carrying a UK driving licence at the time he was arrested.</p>
<p>A Foreign Office spokesman said: &#8220;We are providing assistance following an arrest of a British national in Las Vegas.&#8221;</p>
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