Man’s threats to kill a judge and prison bosses
‘Dangerous’ criminal had thirst for revenge
A‘DANGEROUS’ criminal who was thirsty for revenge has been jailed after threatening to kill a crown court judge and three prison governors.
Peter Johnson, 62, from Eaton, near Macclesfield, sent letters littered with racist, homophobic and neo-Nazi content many including chilling threats.
He was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment at Birmingham Crown Court having been previously found guilty of four counts of threats to kill and six counts of malicious communications.
During a trial the court heard Johnson had previously served time in prison for stalking involving serious alarm and distress.
Following this sentencing a number of initially anonymous abusive letters were sent to the judge involved.
While in jail Johnson befriended a fellow inmate, to whom he fell victim in a £15,000 fraud.
Rather than report the matter to police Johnson, of Back Lane, decided to take revenge by setting him up.
He sent abusive letters to three governors at the prisons where the fraudster had served time.
Johnson sent more letters to the judge, who also happened to have sentenced the fraudster, this time purporting to be from the other man.
But police found the letters had been sent hundreds of miles away from where the fraudster was living.
Johnson denied involvement but when another delivery was sent from the Chester area he was found to have briefly spent time in the city that day before returning home.
Officers also discovered traces of Johnson’s DNA on some of the letters.
Following the sentencing Detective Sergeant Paul Davis, from Cheshire Police’s major investigation team, said: “Johnson is clearly a dangerous individual.
“He embarked on a campaign of psychological warfare against his victims, bombarding them with letters of a racist, homophobic and neo-Nazi nature.
“In many of the letters, he even went as far as threatening to kill them, leaving them in fear for their lives.
“Other than the judge, most of the victims had no links to Johnson whatsoever, they were simply a side matter.
“However, with the judge, Johnson also had a personal matter that he wanted to settle, as not only had they sentenced the fraudster, but the same
“He embarked on a campaign of psychological warfare against his victims.”
judge also sentenced him in 2019. Johnson thought that he would be able to seek the ultimate revenge on his former cellmate by
setting him up for a crime he did not commit, while also seeking revenge on the judge at the same time.”