A SCOT who spent two decades on death row in America before being released has been jailed for another three years for threatening a judge who prosecuted his original case.

Kenny Richey, 47, was sentenced at a court in Ohio yesterday after leaving a telephone message for Judge Randall Basinger on New Year's Eve, telling him: "I'm coming to get you."

Judge Basinger was an assistant county prosecutor in 1986 when Richey, now of Tupelo, Mississippi, was charged with starting a fire that killed a two-year-old girl.

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