Overview
- Liverpool Crown Court gave Christopher Kolon a 14-month jail term, suspended for two years, with up to 30 days of rehabilitation and a five-year restraining order.
- Prosecutors said he mailed his stepfather a letter and pruning shears that posed as a mafia warning and threatened extreme violence.
- The note demanded an apology to the King, new clothes and poppies for his mother, and even a sit-down for tea to “put it to bed.”
- Psychiatric and pre-sentence reports said his mental health had worsened and that he had been having hallucinations in the months before the offence.
- The court recorded a low risk of reoffending and a high risk of harm to known adults, so the judge imposed a restraining order to protect the family while he engages with support.