A SCHOOLBOY who was arrested in a 4am raid after posting a drunken tweet saying he might carry out a Dunblane-style massacre has been admonished.
Mark Inglis, 17, made the online comments after drinking two pints of cider in ''an act of stupidity''.
But he was reported to police when his remarks were spotted by John Crozier - whose daughter Emma was one of 16 children shot dead at Dunblane Primary School in the 1996 atrocity.
Inglis, of Sherwood Road, Glenboig, near Coatbridge, pleaded guilty earlier to using threatening and abusive conduct. Sheriff Raymond McMenamin told him at Stirling Sheriff Court: "I will admonish you.''
In a separate case, a teenager threatened to commit a massacre at his own high school.
Andrew Ferguson made the threat to use a blade to massacre pupils at St Mungo's High School in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, on Twitter. The town's sheriff court heard Ferguson, 17, has left the school. Sentence was deferred for reports.
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