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A Trading Standards officer offered to ‘take out’ a Football League club owner by shooting him with a deadly sniper rifle ‘accurate from 1,000 yards plus’.
The extraordinary claim was made by David Bourne, a worker from Cheshire West council, while discussing the authority’s investigation into businesses owned by Fleetwood chairman Andy Pilley.
In an email to a member of the public, seen by this newspaper, Bourne wrote: ‘For 500k I would take out the problem with a .338 Lapua round. Dolphin Rifles (class F) do a nice one. Accurate 1,000 yards plus.’
A council worker threatened to shoot Fleetwood Town chairman Andy Pilley with a sniper
Soldiers in the British Army have used the .338 Lapua Magnum sniper in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pilley, owner of the League One side, has been left ‘distressed’ by the staggering note and has brought in security at his family’s Lancashire home.
‘As well as one Trading Standards officer proposing to shoot me in return for cash, I also returned home one Sunday afternoon with my partner and children to
