Police probe threats sent to Jim Sillars

POLICE are investigating after Jim Sillars, husband of the late MSP Margo Macdonald, was the target of sinister threats in Fife.

Jim Sillars described the threats as 'water off a duck's back'. Picture: Julie Bull

A handwritten note posted through the door of a Yes Scotland campaign office in Rosyth warned: “Tell Sillars to stay out of West Fife if he values his health.”

The scrawled note went on to say: “Thank f*** Margo the mouth is dead”.

Another message written on a Scottish Government pro-independence leaflet said: “We want you b******* out of Fife. Watch your backs”.

The note on the leaflet was signed “Scots Vets anti-SNP group”.

Mr Sillars described whoever was behind the threat as “nutcases” and said he had “no intention of staying out of any part of Scotland”.

He added: “I never worry about what people say about Margo and me. It’s water off a duck’s back.”

The notes were posted through the door of the Yes campaign office in Admiralty Road in Rosyth on Tuesday evening.

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We can confirm we received a complaint and we are in the very early stages of investigating.”