A former solider endangered a police officer’s life during a bid to “blow up” a major Scots law enforcement base with petrol bombs, a court has heard. ‌

Jamie Taylor, 34, launched three molotov cocktails at Police Scotland vans parked outside the force’s Livingston office on May 30. ‌

On Thursday, a judge at the High Court in Edinburgh saw CCTV footage of Taylor throwing the improvised weapons and of them bouncing off the windscreens of the vehicles. The bombs then exploded on the ground causing them to start fires near the entrance. ‌

Lady Ross then saw footage of PC Kirsty Forsyth rush out of the station armed with a fire extinguisher. She was trying put the fires out with another colleague PC Barry Henderson.

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But then Lady Ross saw the moment when Taylor t

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