A 61-year-old Scottish man has been convicted at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of sending two hoax bomb threat emails to Heathrow Airport from a city centre library.

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

The trial has opened of a man accused of sending hoax emails to Heathrow airport from a Dublin City Library computer claiming there were bombs on two flights to New York .