A racist pensioner who threatened to kill a child who survived a gas explosion in Pakistan has been ordered to pay £400 compensation.
James Conner, 67, hurled the abuse as a four-year-old boy, who survived the explosion in Peshawar in 2013 that killed his parents and sibling and was flown to Scotland for treatment, was playing.
Vile Conner was heard saying: “You shouldn’t be here, you should go to where you f****** came from.
“‘I’m going to f****** bomb your house and I’m going to f****** kill the child.”
A relative who was in the garden at the time, and is the legal guardian of the child, also heard Conner saying “You are all f****** Muhammad”.
He understood this to be a reference to the Prophet Muhammad and was extremely offended.
Conner was found and arrested a couple of weeks later before appearing in court.
The pensioner, from Carmyle, Glasgow pled guilty to behaving in a racially aggravated manner which caused or intended to cause alarm or distress by shouting, swearing, making threats on April 29.
The court heard the child was playing in a garden in the Carmyle area of the city when Conner made the comments from the pavement.
Today at Glasgow Sheriff Court, sheriff Alan Miller ordered Conner pay £400 to the guardians of the boy and said it was “really unfortunate” he found himself in a court at the age he was.
The sheriff told Conner: “There is no doubt your behaviour on this occasion was quite beyond the pale and highly offensive.”
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