A man has been arrested after telling police he was ‘planning a massacre’ at Leeds railway station
He possessed an 8 inch knife when police arrested him
Stephanie BennettA man caused a security alert at Leeds railway station after telling police he was “planning a massacre” there. A court heard that Christopher Weldon contacted West Yorkshire Police and spoke to them via a web chat, saying that he was going to attack people at the city’s station.
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Officers were dispatched to the railway station but nothing happened. Weldon contacted police again later the same day and told them he wanted to kill someone. He told a phone operator that he was carrying a sharpened blade, described what clothing he was wearing and said he would be in the Becketts Bank pub on Park Row.
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Officers arrested Weldon outside HSBC Bank on Park Row and he was found in possession of an eight-inch blade. Weldon admitted to the officers that he had made the calls as he was suffering from mental health problems and depression.
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Kate Bissett, mitigating, said: “He does become overwhelmed by life’s stresses.” Miss Bissett said Weldon, 41, of Ibbotson Mews, Churwell, Leeds, had a breakdown in March 2016 and had suffered further depressive episodes due to financial problems and the breakdown of his marriage.
The Recorder of Leeds, judge Peter Collier, QC, said: “You tried to get yourself back into hospital but you ended up in Armley prison which would have been quite a wake-up call for you.”
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