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A Lidl worker who dressed as a fake policeman with a plan attack officer headquarters and plotted to shoot former teachers and ex-schoolmates has been jailed for life.
Reed Wischhusen, 32, had hoped to shoot police at point blank range at the Avon and Somerset Constabulary headquarters in Portishead and had compiled a list of targets that included a school.
Jurors heard he had a “macabre interest” in the Dunblane gunman Thomas Hamilton and Raoul Moat and US mass killers, and had built firearms and explosives to carry out a “hitman-style attack” on his former school and his former bullies.
He had also written down his warped plans in a document he dubbed “revenge”, which totalled 1,700 words and detailed three potential attacks.
To carry out his plans he compiled an armoury of homemade weapons including pistols, sub-machine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison.
Wischhusen’s plans were only stopped when uniformed officers visited the home he shared with his father in Wick Road, Wick St Lawrence, Somerset in November last year, having received a tip-off that he was purchasing blank ammunition.
Described as a “real house of horrors”, officers were confronted with a chaotic Wischhusen who attempted to shoot himself in the head with a concealed pistol in his bathroom, before running downstairs with the gun to confront armed officers.
He has now been ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years’ imprisonment by a judge at Bristol Crown Court after being convicted of a string of weapons, ammunition and explosives charges.
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