A teenager has walked free from court after being cleared of threatening to blow up an Aberdeen garage.
Liam Smith had been accused of making an offensive call to Cars Recovery, telling an employee he would follow them home and bomb the garage on Craigshaw Drive on Christmas Eve last year.
The 19-year-old, of 7 Moir Crescent, Aberdeen, denied the charge and went on trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday.
Witness Louisa Marr, who works at Cars Recovery, told the court about the call.
She said she was in the front office by chance, and happened to pick up the phone and spoke to someone wanting to retrieve a dirt bike.
She said she understood there had been an earlier incident with her colleague, and thought it was the same person on the phone.
However, she accepted the caller did not give their name when she answered and that since there was no registration for the bike, and that she had not spoken to the person before, she was “putting two and two together” to work out who it was.
