{"id":119866,"date":"2023-10-10T18:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=119866"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T18:49:45","slug":"brit-gunman-who-planned-massacre-claims-baked-beans-prank-is-most-id-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/brit-gunman-who-planned-massacre-claims-baked-beans-prank-is-most-id-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit ‘gunman’ who ‘planned massacre’ claims baked beans prank is ‘most I’d do’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A gunman accused of plotting a Dunblane-style massacre and shot three times at his home by police claims throwing baked beans at an enemy's house was the "most I would do".<\/p>\n
Detectives visited the home of Reed Wischhusen, 32, on November 28 last year having allegedly discovered intelligence suggesting he had acquired blank weapons capable of being converted into working firearms.<\/p>\n
Wischhusen allegedly ran at police in his home while armed with a weapon. Giving evidence at Bristol Crown Court today (Tuesday, October 10) he said his sole intention while running at police was to end his own life.<\/p>\n
He said he felt "trapped" after trying to take his life in his bathroom during the visit, and wanted officers to "finish the job". The defendant added there was "no attempt to harm anyone else" in the incident.<\/p>\n
The court heard how his journal detailed an obsession with guns and other explosives. A "revenge document" was also found, with names the prosecution alleged he wanted to target. <\/span>But Wischhusen denied there was any substance to the document, claiming it was just a "fantasy".<\/p>\n <\/p>\n "I have never fired a bullet from any of the sub machine guns," he told the court. He said he had simply "put my thoughts of how I was feeling onto paper" as a form of "psychological relief".<\/span><\/p>\n "I would throw a bucket of baked beans over [one of the named people's] front door in the middle of the night. That is the most I would do," he said. Wischhusen also said he had "no plans to carry out" scenarios outlined in the documents involving mass shootings at his old school and police headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n Wischhusen said he only built the weapons to "prove a point" after being rejected twice for a licence, denying claims he ever had intentions to make explosives or build a bomb.<\/p>\n He confirmed he saw a police amnesty on Facebook and said he dropped off some of his firearms there before the shooting – but kept hold of his sub-machine gun as he had "worked on it for a year."<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The defendant told the jury he had lost his mum when he was a young boy – which led to him thinking about taking revenge on doctors that treated her. As a child, he said he "blamed the hospital and wanted to shoot doctors dead", but ultimately did not act on it.<\/p>\n Wischhusen claimed he would "scour the internet" to find out stuff about mass suicide and mass poisonings as it was "so unusual for something to happen", and had suffered from depression since he was a young child that would keep coming back "once or twice a year".<\/p>\n He confirmed he had a "complete working homemade sub machine gun" but claimed he had "never tested it" and didn't know it was working. He said he also had a handmade Glock 17 that was handed into the police amnesty in May 2022, and another antique weapon "collecting dust".<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He also acknowledged owning a partially-built rocket launcher designed to "launch chemical weapon" and "not an explosive charge". <\/p>\n Wischhusen denies charges of having an explosive substance with intent to endanger life, having an explosive substance, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life and possessing a prohibited firearm without a certificate. The trial continues.<\/p>\n For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking <\/i><\/b>here<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n For emotional support, you can call the Samaritans 24-hour helpline on 116 123, emailjo@samaritans.org, visit a Samaritans branch in person or go to the Samaritans website.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Source: Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A gunman accused of plotting a Dunblane-style massacre and shot three times at his home by police claims throwing baked beans at an enemy's house […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n