Man planned torture and drugging
A Bo’ness man who planned to torture a woman while playing a medley of love songs has been jailed for four years.
William Ellis, 50, had blamed his target for him being sent to jail on a previous occasion and wrote a 200-page letter claiming she had betrayed him.
He planned to use a stun gun on the woman before handcuffing her and forcing her to take drugs and alcohol.
However, the police swooped before he could act, after calls discussing the crime were bugged.
Ellis, who was once jailed for nine years for holding a woman hostage in his van for four days, admitted a charge of conspiracy to abduct and assault when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow in January.
Balaclava seized
The court heard the woman who Ellis planned to torture, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, first contacted him while he was in Shotts prison.
Ellis was released on licence in 2004 and the pair remained in contact.
But, he soon began drinking and gambling heavily and concerns were raised by the woman about his behaviour.
He was eventually sent back to prison in March 2005 after his licence was revoked.
Kevin McCallum, prosecuting, said Ellis blamed the woman for him being locked up.
Ellis completed his jail sentence on 6 June last year and formed a plan to abduct and assault the woman and terrorise members of her family.
Threatening letter
Mr McCallum told the court a CD containing songs such as Daniel Powter’s Bad Day, Akon’s Lonely and The Proclaimers’ track Life with You was to be played during the woman’s ordeal.
The court heard that the woman would also have been made to read the 200-page letter, or it would have been read to her.
Various passages from the document, which said Ellis could make every day of his victim’s life a misery until the day she died, were read out to the court.
Ellis added: “You betrayed me like Judas betrayed our Lord Jesus.” He also said he would torture her so much she would “never recover”.
When detectives moved in on his home, they seized handcuffs, a balaclava, a disposable glove and a copy of his letter.
Ellis was placed on a lifelong restriction order, which means he will be supervised for the rest of his life once released from prison.
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