Jamie Taylor, 34, launched three petrol bombs at Police Scotland vans parked outside the force's Livingston office on May 30 this year with the incident caught on CCTV Harrowing footage shows the moment the makeshift bombs exploded (Image: UGC)

A former soldier put a police officer's life in jeopardy during an attempt to "blow up" a major Scottish law enforcement facility with petrol bombs, a court was told. Jamie Taylor, 34, hurled three molotov cocktails at Police Scotland vehicles stationed outside the force's Livingston headquarters on May 30.

On Thursday, a judge at Edinburgh's High Court viewed CCTV footage showing Taylor lobbing the makeshift weapons, which bounced off the windscreens of the patrol cars before detonating on the ground and igniting blazes near the ent

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