A 61-year-old Scottish man has been sentenced to four years for sending two hoax bomb threat emails to Heathrow Airport purporting to be from the Scottish National Liberation Army.

A 61-year-old man has been convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of one count of sending a hoax bomb threat email to Heathrow Airport.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of sending emails to Heathrow Airport claiming there were bombs on flights which were in the air at the time, has heard the threats were assessed not to be a credible risk by the authoritie