Police arrest man with giant wooden cross outside Dunblane Primary

A MAN has spent more than 24 hours in custody, after turning up at Dunblane Primary School with a 12ft by 6ft wooden cross saying he wanted to pray for the victims of the 1996 massacre.

Richard Champion was arrested near Dunblane Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon and charged with using threatening and abusive behaviour, apparently after staff at the school called police.

The 55-year-old salesman, from from Crawley, Sussex, was liberated on the orders of the procurator fiscal from the cells at Stirling Sheriff Court at 4.30pm on Thursday.

He did not appear in court, and said he was “mystified” by what had taken place.

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