A man who telephoned an asylum seekers’ hotel and warned ‘Get these people out, we’re coming’ has been spared jail because he restricted his threats to a call - rather than posting them online.
A sheriff said Scott Wyllie’s actions were less public than those of Lucy Connolly, who was jailed for 31 months after posting on X urging people to ‘set fire’ to asylum hotels.
Wyllie, 40, rang the Hotel Cladhan in Falkirk at 11.55 pm last November, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told.
His call was automatically diverted to reception at the Park Hotel, also Falkirk, part of the same group. It was answered by a male member of night staff.
In ‘a tirade’, Wyllie said: ‘Get these people out of your hotel, because we’re coming.
