CITY MALL BOMB HOAX SOLDIER AVOIDS JAIL
Daily Record|February 15, 2023
AN EX-soldier who carried out a bomb hoax at a shopping centre because he had a "genuine fear for his life" has escaped jail.
ALAN MCEWEN
CITY MALL BOMB HOAX SOLDIER AVOIDS JAIL

Robert Kirk sparked the evacuation of Edinburgh's Cameron Toll Shopping Centre by phoning cops and telling them he'd planted a nail bomb.

The 27-year-old appeared at the city's sheriff court yesterday for sentencing. The court was told he carried out the terrifying hoax as he wanted the "area cleared" and to be taken into police custody.

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