Former Mormon threatened to carry out 'latter-day Dunblane Massacre' in chilling phone call to police

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A former Mormon jailed for stalking a top Scottish Conservative politician is facing a new prison term, after threatening to carry out a latter-day Dunblane Massacre at the MSP's home - half a mile from a busy Stirlingshire primary school.

James Lynn-Wilson rang Police Scotland and asked for the Chief Constable's office before threatening to "act like Thomas Hamilton" at an address in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire where the Dundee -born Central Scotland MSP Stephen Kerr lived.

Police Scotland operator Dawn Smith, who took the call, told a court she "felt quite sick" when she realised what Lynn-Wilson meant.Mrs Smith, 50, said: "I took it to mean that he was going to take a gun and do exactly what was done at Dunblane."She immediately notified her control and Lynn-Wilson, 49, was arrested on a bus in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire - not at that point headed for Mr Kerr's house.PC Jennifer Stewart, one of several officers sent to intercept him, said that Lynn-Wilson had walked towards her down the bus aisle "holding his hands together in front of him as if he expected to be handcuffed".She told a jury at Falkirk Sheriff Court: "He was saying he was going to go to [Mr Kerr's address in Bridge of Allan] and do what Thomas Hamilton had done."He just kept repeating sort of that same thing, over and over again."Prosecutor Katie Cunningham asked her: "Do you know who Thomas Hamilton is?"Visibly struggling to maintain her composure, PC Stewart replied: "The person who murdered...

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