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Abraham Lincoln’s Bristol terrorist bomb plot
Bomb threats were sent to a parcel delivery company in Bristol by Abraham Lincoln claiming to be an MI6 spy.
Lincoln, a 36-year-old parcel sorter from Montpelier who changed his name by deed poll, was sacked from his job at UK Mail in Severn Beach after poor attendance.
His revenge bomb threat in November last year to the recruitment company who let him go backfired when he was arrested two days later and jailed on Thursday for 18 months.
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In apparently drunken text messages* sent to Natalia Krasulaka at Interaction Recruitment on November 24, he said:
9.39pm: My dear Princess Natalie. I work for MI6.
9.47pm: If anything happened to my dear kids in the great United Kingdom I will tell de court of law you fired me and I couldn’t defend the UK Natalie. See you in court.
9.56pm: Thank you Natalie, may God bless the United Kingdom.
10.03pm: There is a bomb in the parcel, I am not there, I will hold you responsible of English kids die, Natalie.
10.09pm: I love this kingdom my dear. Nice to meet you. I will hold responsible you and the manager of Interaction if the blow up some Brits.
10.15pm: Interaction had employ terrorist my dear. I have found out, I will tell English secret service.
Lincoln was jailed after a trial at Bristol Crown Court where it was heard he had changed his name from Maulid Abdi.
He was found guilty of communicating false information about a bomb threat and also admitted a charge of obtaining services by deception.
Lincoln told the court he had good reasons for sending the warnings to the company, having overheard a plot to place a bomb at the company.
After the trial, DC Dai Nicholas said: “False calls of this nature will not be tolerated and will always be investigated In this case the defendant was convicted for an offence which will always carry a mandatory prison sentence.”
*Text messages revealed in Bristol Post court report.
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