'Gunman obsessed with Dunblane killer' allegedly made firearms for revenge plan on ex-classmates
dailyrecord.co.ukA gunman with a “macabre interest” in the Dunblane attacker built firearms and explosives for a “revenge” plan on ex-classmates before he was shot by police, a court heard.
Warehouse worker Reed Wischhusen, 32, of Wick St Lawrence, a small village in Somerset, wrote of a “hitman-style attack” on 10 people, shooting dead teachers and throwing bombs at his former school and killing police staff, prosecutors say.
It is alleged over a “sustained period”, Wischhusen, who is fascinated with mass shootings and infamous killers, compiled an “armoury” of homemade weapons including pistols, sub-machine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison, to be kept at his “quiet house”.On November 28 2022, police officers were forced to shoot Wischhusen three times after he pointed a handgun at them while they searched the house for weapons, a trial jury at Bristol Crown Court heard on Tuesday.Five officers attended the address after receiving intelligence about him converting blank firearms into lethal weapons.Wischhusen, who survived and was in hospital for four months before his arrest, denies having an explosive substance with intent to endanger life, having an explosive substance, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life and possessing a prohibited firearm without a certificate.He has admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a prohibited firearm and possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate in relation to the handgun incident last year.Jonathan Rees KC, opening the trial, said: “(Wischhusen’s) quiet house and its outhouse to the rear of it contained a dark secret.“Over a sustained period of time,
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