Teen vandal is jailed over neo-Nazi graffiti
A VANDAL who scrawled anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi symbols on an MSPs office window has been been caged for more than two years.
James Malcolm, 18, used red paint to draw symbols including a Star of David being hung on gallows, at Rona McKay’s Kirkintilloch office.
He then caused £14,000 of damage to 27 headstones at a cemetery with a Nazi swastika symbol scribbled on broken glass found at one of them.
During his two-month crime spree, Malcolm yelled “Heil Hitler” at a terrified 16-year-old in a park.
He vandalised Lenzie Moss Nature Reserve and Waverly and Luggie Park in Kirkintiloch, and used his blood to write offensive slogans on the wall of a police cell.
Malcolm pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to four news@ eveningtimes.co.uk charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, a charge of maliciously damaging headstones and writing offensive slogans on a cell between June 1 and August 9, last year.
Sheriff Alan MacKenzie sentenced him to two years and four months behind bars.
The court heard a member of the public spotted graffiti on a glass notice board at Lenzie Moss Nature Reserve on July 17.
He saw “Glory to marches and enemies to the point of no return” in blue paint, along with Nazi slogans and symbols as well as “James M”, scratched on to a sign among the post.
Procurator fiscal depute Mark Allan said the man was “offended and horrified” and took a picture then reported it to the police.
On July 23, Malcolm graffitied in red paint on a bridge above the main path leading to Luggie Park.
Days later a dog-walker saw “Adolf Hitler”, “All N ***** s must hang” and “white power” among other phrases.
Mr Allan said: “She was offended and appalled by what she saw, in particular a picture of the Star too David on a hangman’s noose, which reminded her of a personal tragic event.”
She contacted the police who took a note of the full text on the bridge.
The cost of the damage was £500 for the removal of the graffiti.