Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A man who admitted planting a hoax bomb at a polling station on the day of the general election last December has been jailed for three years.Peter Conoboy placed the device in the foyer of the tower block where he lived in Motherwell near a community centre that was to be used as a polling station on December 12.The 48-year-old previously admitted the offence at the High Court in Glasgow in July, when no motive for his actions was made clear.Appearing again on Tuesday for sentencing via video link, Conoboy was sentenced by judge Lord Matthews to three years in prison with two years and three months still to serve.The court previously heard bomb.
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