A MAN who posted comments on Facebook in support of a proscribed terrorist organisation and calling for police to be executed has been spared jail.

Andrew Kinnon, 38, uploaded images of masked gunmen and made pro IRA comments including “execute all police service of Northern Ireland / Royal Ulster Constabulary personnel.”

He also wrote “free the prisoners of war” and “Brit scum out.”

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A total of 47 images showing Kinnon’s support for the IRA, Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and Provisional IRA were found.

Information was passed to police who searched Kinnon’s flat in January 2016.

Along with laptop and internet router, police found a box with the words: “Stay out. Real Irish Republican Army OK. God Bless the Pope.”

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On the day, Kinnon also admitted: “I knew that would bring it on top for me one day.”

At Glasgow Sheriff Court today, Kinnon, from Kirkton Avenue, Knightswood, pled guilty to committing an offence under the Terrorism Act 2006 between January 2014 and January 2016.

He admitted publishing statements “urging acts of violence” intending encouragement for terrorism or being reckless as to whether his actions would lead to terrorism.

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He also pled guilty to being in possession of cannabis worth around £1,500.

Sheriff Andrew Cubie gave Kinnon a two-year community payback order as a “direct alternative” to jail.

Kinnon will be supervised throughout the order and must do 250 hours of unpaid work within six months.