A MAN who posted sinister tweets about murdering George Galloway has been banned from contacting the politician.

Alan Tilbrook (pictured below), 63, wrote several threatening comments referring to the controversial All For Unity party leader and posted them on his Twitter page last month.

East Lothian Courier: Alan Tilbrook outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court

Tilbrook’s messages included: “This man [Galloway] only fit for a bullet thru the brain” and “[Galloway] shud (sic) have been shot years ago mite (sic) happen yet tho”.

Tilbrook, of Windsor Park Terrace, Musselburgh, also posted: “You are not a Celt Galloway you are a traitor one day to meet a traitors end.”

The comments were reported to the police and Tilbrook appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday, where he admitted a charge of uploading threatening messages to social media.

The court heard that several comments referring to the murder of Galloway were published on Tilbrook’s Twitter feed – with the user name @loyaljock – over three days last month.

Sheriff John Cook deferred full sentence to next month and Tilbrook was told he was not allowed to approach or contact Mr Galloway in any way until the sentencing hearing.

Tilbrook pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by uploading threatening social media messages and intimating George Galloway was fit for a bullet through the brain, and uttering sinister comments about how he might be murdered on various occasions between March 17 and 19 this year.

An allegation of posting similar threatening comments referring to the murder of Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross were deleted from the charge.

Tilbrook uses the Lion Rampant as his Twitter avatar and his feed is full of pro-Scottish independence and anti-English rants.

His tweets include “Once again the Celts show their superiority to the bastard English” and “Let little England keep her [The Queen] and her inbred family”.

Further posts state: “Scotland will decide its own future no little Englander tells us what we can and cannot do full stop” while Tilbrook describes former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson as a “unionist boot”.

George Galloway has been a Member of Parliament for four constituencies, firstly with the Labour Party and later with the Respect Party.

The 66-year-old is currently the leader of the Workers Party of Britain, which he founded in 2019, and is the lead spokesman for All For Unity, a Scottish-based party he founded to oppose Scottish independence.