Aaron O’Neill, 20 did not want to to work, so he paid his friend Colin Hammond, 21, to stage a bomb threat from Islamic State.
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Man paid a friend to call the police with a fake Isis bomb threat
20-year old man paid a friend to hoax call police with an Isis bomb threat in order to stay off work.
Aaron O’Neill
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According to the Irish Times, the men had been out drinking and taking tablets the night before the 6am bomb threat was made.
Hammond called using a call centre outside his home.
Obviously, police had to take dramatic action over the suspected terror threat, shutting down a motorway, disrupting air traffic control and preventing 4,000 Intel staff from going to work.
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Hammond told the emergency operator: ‘You will not find them, this is a warning, we’re everywhere now.’
And when asked which organisation he represented, he responded: ‘Islamic State’.
Judge Martin Nolan described the case as ‘profoundly stupid’, adding that ‘it is a very, very strange way to avoid going to work’.
He was sentenced to carry out 200 hours of community service in lieu of a two-year prison sentence.
Yesterday, Judge Nolan said there was ‘no reason to depart from the same sentence’ for O’Neill.
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The case has been adjourned until January to get a report from Probation Service to find out if he is eligible for community service. Metro UK reported.
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