A chainsaw wielding workman who threatened to "chop up" a man who complained about his parking has escaped a prison sentence.

Landscape gardener William McPhee was ordered to do 160 hours of unpaid work as a direct alternative to a custodial sentence.

McPhee, 41, from Broxburn, West Lothian , was found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by threatening to kill Kyle Manifield while brandishing an operating chainsaw towards him.

A jury heard that the accused started up the noisy petrol-driven power tool and revved it angrily above his head as he walked towards Mr Manifield shouting threats, a court heard.

Mr Manifield had been called to the scene by his anxious partner Rachel Saunders who had been forced to take her one-year-old child onto a busy road because McPhee

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