A JURY has retired to consider its verdict against a man accused of making a post on social media threatening the assassination of Scotland’s First Minister.
William Curtis, 70, is on trial accused of sending threatening messages to Nicola Sturgeon and sending or causing a threatening message to be sent to former SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson.
Curtis and another man, Philip Mitchell, 60, are also accused of assaulting and abducting a sheriff in a car park in Banff, Aberdeenshire, in June 2021.