Jailed, the teenager who scrawled vile neo-Nazi graffiti on an MSP’s window
A VANDAL who scrawled neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols on an MSP’s office window has been jailed for 28 months.
James Malcolm, 18, used red paint to draw a Star of David being hanged on a gallows at the office of Strathkelvin and Bearsden Nationalist MSP Rona Mackay. He also caused £14,000 of damage to 27 headstones at a cemetery, including scribbling a Nazi swastika on a bottle and smashing it over one.
During a two-month crime spree, Malcolm yelled ‘Heil Hitler’ at a terrified 16year-old in a park. He also vandalised Lenzie Moss Nature Reserve and Waverley and Luggie Park in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
After being arrested, he used his own blood to write offensive slogans on the wall of a police cell.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court in December, Malcolm, of Kirkintilloch, pleaded guilty to four charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, a charge of maliciously damaging headstones and one of writing offensive slogans on a cell between June 1 and August 9 last year.
Yesterday, Sheriff Alan MacKenzie sentenced him to two years and four months.
The court heard that, on July 23, Malcolm daubed graffiti in red paint on a bridge.
A dog-walker saw the offensive slogans, including ‘Adolf Hitler’, ‘All n ***** s must hang’ and ‘White power’
Procurator fiscal depute Mark Allan said: ‘She was offended and appalled by what she saw, in particular a picture of the Star of David on
‘Offended and appalled’
a hangman’s noose, which reminded her of a personal tragic event.’
The following day, Malcolm daubed anti-Semitic and neoNazi graffiti on the window of Miss Mackay’s office in Kirkintilloch with a red paint marker. This included another version of the Star of David in a hangman’s noose.
An employee ‘felt uncomfortable about the content’ of the vandalism and contacted the police. Investigations led them to Malcolm.
Mr Allan said: ‘He stated that he was looking to shock people with his messages. He didn’t see anything wrong with what he had done and stated he was getting punished because it was the establishment’s rules.’