A former Mormon jailed for stalking a high Scottish Conservative politician is dealing with a brand new jail time period, after threatening to hold out a latter-day Dunblane Bloodbath on the MSP's residence - half a mile from a busy Stirlingshire major faculty.
James Lynn-Wilson rang Police Scotland and requested for the Chief Constable's workplace earlier than threatening to "act like Thomas Hamilton" at an deal with in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire the place the Dundee -born Central Scotland MSP Stephen Kerr lived.
Police Scotland operator Daybreak Smith, who took the decision, instructed a courtroom she "felt fairly sick" when she realised what Lynn-Wilson meant.
Mrs Smith, 50, mentioned: "I took it to imply that he was going to take a gun and do precisely what was accomplished at Dunblane."
She instantly notified her management and Lynn-Wilson, 49, was arrested on a bus in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire - not at that time headed for Mr Kerr's home.
PC Jennifer Stewart, one in every of a number of officers despatched to intercept him, mentioned that Lynn-Wilson had walked in the direction of her down the bus aisle "holding his arms collectively in entrance of him as if he anticipated to be handcuffed".
She instructed a jury at Falkirk Sheriff Courtroom: "He was saying he was going to go to [Mr Kerr's address in Bridge of Allan] and do what Thomas Hamilton had accomplished.
"He simply stored repeating form of that very same factor, again and again."
Prosecutor Katie Cunningham requested her: "Have you learnt who Thomas Hamilton is?"
Visibly struggling to keep up her composure, PC Stewart replied: "The one that murdered... like, all the youngsters."
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Miss Cunningham requested her, "Are you all proper?"
After a pausing for a number of seconds, the officer replied: "On the time I discovered it fairly regarding as a result of I lived a few streets away and I knew it was not far away from Cornton Major College [in Stirling] and a couple of mile-and-a-half from Bridge of Allan Major College."
PC Stewart, 37, added: "That raised clearly severe issues for myself on the time."
PC Matthew Newell, who listened to and transcribed Lynn-Wilson's name to the police, described him as "indignant, erratic and abusive".
He mentioned: "It was a horrible name."
The courtroom heard that the incident, in July 2021, was the second time in seven months that Lynn-Wilson had phoned the police mentioning Hamilton's title and making threats to go to Mr Kerr's home.
In December 2020 he rang police and gave his title, however added "some folks referred to as me Thomas Hamilton".
He then requested the decision handler, Natalie Bowman, if she remembered the Dublane shootings in 1996, and likewise talked about the title of the trainer murdered by Hamilton, Gwen Mayor.
Mrs Bowman, 28, who mentioned she instructed Lynn-Wilson she was three on the time of the bloodbath, mentioned she Googled the names whereas Lynn-Wilson was on the cellphone so she knew who he was speaking about -- then requested for fast police attendance due to the names she'd been instructed.
Officers went to Mr Kerr's deal with and located Lynn-Wilson two minutes' stroll away -- in an "agitated and fairly aggressive" state within the very subsequent avenue.
Lynn-Wilson, of Denny, additionally Stirlingshire, performed his personal defence and cross-examined the prosecution witnesses personally throughout a day and a half of proof.
He claimed in courtroom he was the "sixth cousin, as soon as eliminated" of one in every of Hamilton's 16 baby victims.
He denied two costs of threatening and abusive behaviour however modified his plea instantly after taking the oath and starting to offer proof himself.
He mentioned: "I admit making the calls. I'm responsible."
The courtroom heard he had a earlier conviction for stalking Mr Kerr, who's a former Conservative MP in addition to a present MSP, and in 2016 he was sentenced on the Excessive Courtroom in Edinburgh for 26 months for doing so.
Sheriff Simon Collins QC deferred sentence till Might tenth, saying background experiences had been "plainly obligatory".
He continued Lynn-Wilson's remand in custody.
In 2016 the Excessive Courtroom heard there was a historical past of animosity by Lynn-Wilson - who was excommunicated from the Mormon Church in 2004 for "conduct unbecoming" - in the direction of Mr Kerr, a church elder.
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