A Scottish bus driver who phoned in a bomb hoax the day after the London Transport bombings was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in prison.
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Sheriff John Baird, citing the "climate of fear" at the time, said a custodial sentence was appropriate for Thomas Lamb. A day before he phoned in the hoax, 52 people had been killed in London when bombs went off on three underground trains and a bus.
Lamb's call to the First Bus depot in Glasgow led to an evacuation and search. When no bomb was found, investigators began looking for the person who had called in the threat and traced the call to Lamb's cell phone.
He pleaded guilty to a breach of the peace.
"It was a misguided joke," said Lamb's lawyer, Callum Ross. "He can only be described as a buffoon."
