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Death threat man gets eight years

29 July 2011 Last updated at 11:27 GMT A man who threatened to kill two former work colleagues in Aberdeenshire and illegally held a gun has been jailed for eight years.

Former heroin addict Joseph Russell, 31, was found guilty of the offences which were committed in Peterhead.

Russell was also found guilty of being concerned in the supply of the Class B drug amphetamine.

He was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh, where Lord Pentland said they were "serious" offences.

The judge said he regarded the conviction for possessing a pistol, which was in working order, along with ammunition "as very troubling in view of your criminal propensities".

Defence solicitor advocate George Mathers said: "It has to be accepted that the combination of drugs, threats, guns and prohibited ammunition make this a matter of the utmost seriousness."


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