‘Twisted’ OAP who threatened to kill PM jailed for 4yrs
A PENSIONER who threatened to kill Theresa May and made several bomb threats was yesterday jailed for almost four years.
Isabella Jackson, who previously served two years for a bomb threat against President Barack Obama, admitted a series of charges at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Jackson, 73, will serve 45 months for her latest offences, which came only months after she was released from prison.
A sheriff told Jackson her ‘twisted mind’ created the ‘utmost disruption from the comfort of her sofa’.
On November 24, 2014, the pensioner sent an email from her care home in Buckhaven, Fife, to aides of then-Home Secretary Mrs May threatening to kill her. On January 4 this year, Jackson – who was on bail for the offence against Mrs May – sent emails to the Metropolitan Police and Police Scotland in which she made bomb threats against Edinburgh Airport and Harrods and King’s Cross Station in London.
Shortly afterwards she sent a package to the Levenmouth CID office in Methil, Fife, containing a packet of white powder with the word ‘death’ written on it. This sparked a major incident for emergency services. In addition, Jackson sent a message to Fife Council falsely claiming a fellow resident in her care home was dead.
The pensioner pleaded guilty on indictment to behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards Theresa May and towards Fife Police CID. She also admitted sending bomb threats and a charge under the Communications Act.
Sheriff Grant McCulloch told her: ‘You have accepted your guilt for four offences, each of which is significant and caused major inconvenience, fear and alarm. You are no stranger to such behaviour. It is a deliberate act of a twisted mind, quite content to cause the utmost
‘Causing fear and alarm’
disruption from the comfort of your own sofa.’
A further hearing will take place later on an application by the Crown for a serious crime prevention order that would curtail Jackson’s internet use and subject her to police monitoring.
In January 2013, Jackson was given a two-year sentence after sending an email to the US Embassy in London claiming there was a bomb on a US plane and that President Obama ‘was to be killed’.
It is understood this caused a flight to be grounded.
Detective Chief Inspector Kenny Armstrong of Police Scotland said he was ‘at a loss’ to explain Jackson’s behaviour, adding: ‘The time, effort, cost and resources that have been put into dealing with each threat she made has been sizeable.’