Pensioner locked up for Theresa May death threat

CRIME: Woman also sent powder to police and claimed there was bomb in Harrods

A pensioner who threatened to kill Theresa May and caused a bomb hoax at Harrods has been locked up again.

Isabella Jackson, 72, admitted a series of offences which included the threat to the Prime Minister while she was still Home Secretary and sending white powder to Levenmouth Police Station.

She was remanded in custody following a hearing at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court yesterday and will be sentenced later this month.

Jackson, of Buckhaven, has previously served time in prison for sending email threats to the US Embassy in London claiming there was a bomb on a plane and that former US president Barack Obama was to be killed.

She admitted threatening to kill Mrs May on November 24 2014, at her home address in Braehead Gardens, the Palace of Westminster or elsewhere.

While on bail, she emailed police on January 4 this year claiming there was a bomb in the Harrods department store in London.

Between then and January 17 she sent a white powder and a card marked with the word ‘death’ to the Levenmouth criminal investigation department at the police station on Sea Road, Methil.

The delivery of the package by Royal Mail prompted an emergency response involving several police cars, ambulances and fire engines.

Jackson admitted a fourth charge of sending a message to Fife Council on September 10 2015, falsely claiming Susan Johnston was dead, but pleas of not guilty to four other charges were accepted. Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Grant McCulloch for preparation of a criminal justice and social work inquiry report until May 25, when there will also be a serious crime prevention order hearing.

Jackson’s previous threats in 2011 are understood to have caused a flight to be grounded at an American airport.

Emails to US Embassy staff claimed there were to be explosions at their building in London’s Grosvenor Square.

Similar emails were sent to the US Embassy in Paris claiming there was a bomb there.

Isabella Jackson, from Buckhaven, will be sentenced later this month.