A man who falsely reported that a bomb had been planted at Stirling’s Islamic Centre was this week jailed for two years and six months.
Keith Smyth, of Cowie, had made the claim, on the night of June 20 last year, that a bomb was likely to explode at the Burghmuir Road centre the next morning - and followed it up two days later by again falsely claiming bombs were likely to explode at Govan Police Station, Glasgow, and at Glenochil Prison, Clackmannanshire.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard that an “extensive” police search had been carried out without result at Govan Police Station and that Glenochil Prison had been placed in lockdown and members of the public turned away.
