A man has been found guilty of making a social media post threatening the assassination of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
William Curtis, 70, sent threatening messages to Ms Sturgeon on various occasions between February 27 and March 6, 2019. Jurors at the High Court in Glasgow also ruled that Curtis and another man, Philip Mitchell, 60, assaulted and abducted a sheriff in a car park in Banff, Aberdeenshire, in June 2021.
Curtis was also found guilty of sending or causing a threatening message to be sent to former SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson on March 9, 2019. He sent a threatening online message to the former Banffshire and Buchan Coast representative, which included a link to a video on the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox.
