A bomb hoaxer threatened to blow up Sittingbourne police station and shoot officers in a late-night stand-off, a court has heard.

Wade Grant was said by a judge to have been in an "overwrought state of mind" when he committed a "very significant breach of the public peace".

His actions shortly before midnight on December 9 last year led to seven officers having to be evacuated from the building as armed police, explosive search dogs and a helicopter were deployed.

During his "highly irate" and abusive rant, Grant made several references to the radical Islamic organisation Isis, and laughed as he declared the government was "f***ed up".

But Maidstone Crown Court heard the Sittingbourne resident, who has no previous convictions, was not linked to any terrorist group.

The incident was sp

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