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A MAN sent packages laced with a hazardous chemical to Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson.
Spike Woodbridge, 42, packed the letters containing iodine as his mental health suffered during the pandemic.
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The parcels were addressed to the First Minister’s official residence of Bute House in Edinburgh and 10 Downing Street.
Woodbridge was today banned from contacting Ms Sturgeon and Mr Johnson or any of their staff for three years.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard a major incident was sparked when staff intercepted the post at a Royal Mail sorting office in the capital’s Sighthill.
Prosecutor Alan Wickham said: “The letter to the First Minister read ‘Dear Nicola, another present from the Cold War.
“Not healthy. Please be very careful with this. Love from Spike’.”
He added that a “similar” letter was sent to the PM.
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The court heard Woodbridge, of the city’s Broomhouse, had been struggling with the closure of support services last year.
He was accused of breach of the peace and conducting himself in a disorderly manner.
But the Crown accepted a special defence of mental disorder between November 12 and 16, 2020.
His lawyer Ed Cadden said his client “suffered from schizophrenia for most of his adult life”.
He said that in the build up to the the incident he had been “denied” contact with the team managing his schizophrenia due to the outbreak and was not injecting medication.
Mr Cadden added that Woodbridge believed “these individuals were communicating with him” through their regular bulletins.
He added: “He can still be managed safely in the community now these services have opened again.”
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We told how bomb experts rushed to the depot after the package addressed to Ms Sturgeon started leaking smoke.
Getting a very large does of iodine, several grams, for example – can cause burning of the mouth, throat and stomach, fever, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weak pulse and a coma.
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