A THUG who blasted a mum with paintball gun in front of her children as she walked the West Highland Way during a two-hour rampage has been jailed for 18 months.
Anthony Rasmussen shot 47-year-old Miriam Bell during the shooting spree between Glasgow and Carbeth, last June 23.
She thought she was shot with an air rifle as Rasmussen fired six shots from the Audi car he was in. One hit Mrs Bell on the hip.
Dad-of-two Rasmussen injured 59-year-old Elizabeth Hayes who was also walking on the same route, and shot her twice to the rib cage, on the elbow and side of her face.
He also fired paint at Daniel Malone, 21, in Knightswood, Richard Wood, 63, and Scott Wilkie, 18 in Bearsden, 55-year-old Mary Summers, in Clydebank and at a car in Carbeth during his stint.
Rasmussen, 24, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court, to seven charges including shooting Mrs Hayes to her injury.
On Thursday, Sheriff Martin Jones QC jailed Rasmussen for 18 months reduced from two years.
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