Fife pensioner who sent death threat to Theresa May jailed

A Fife pensioner who sent death threats to Theresa May, made bomb threat to Harrods, London Kings Cross Station and Edinburgh Airport then sent white powder labelled as "death" to police has been jailed for almost four years.

Isabella Jackson - who previously served a two year jail term for threatening to blow up a plane carrying then-President Barack Obama - admitted a series of charges at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.

The 73-year-old will now serve a further 45 months behind bars over the threats - which started only months after she was released from prison for a similar offence.

A sheriff told her that her "twisted mind" had caused her to "cause the utmost disruption from the comfort of her sofa".

On November 24 2014 Jackson sent an e-mail from her home in Buckhaven to aides of then-Home Secretary Theresa May.

In it she threatened to kill the now Prime Minister.

An allegation that she sent images and details of bombs, explosives and violence in a string of other emails was deleted by the prosecution.

Then on January 4 this year Jackson - who at that point on bail for the Theresa May threats charges - made bomb threats against Harrods and Kings Cross Station in London and Edinburgh Airport.

She sent an email from her home in Buckhaven to the Police Scotland Professional Standards Department in Aberdeen and to the Professional Standards Department of the Metropolitan Police in the Empress State Building, Lillie Road, London.

The court heard that she "sent inforation with the intent of inducing in them a false belief that a bomb or other thing likely to explode or ignite" was present at the upmarket retailer as well as at the two transport hubs.

Shortly after the bomb threats Jackson sent a package by post to the Levenmouth CID office in Sea Road, Methil, Fife.

In it she sent a packet of white powder and a card with the word "death" written on it.

That sparked a major incident following the receipt of the suspicious package.

Firefighters and ambulances rushed to the scene and a major investigation was launched which led cops to Jackson.