Woman who threatened to carry out 'another Dunblane' fined
The shocking social media footage was recorded by a concerned member of the public who was watching the livestream and reported the incident to the police.
Rennie was subsequently arrested and charged, and she pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by uttering threats to blow up a school and make reference to the Dunblane massacre when she appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in December last year.
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Sentence had been deferred and Rennie returned to the dock for sentencing on Monday, where Sheriff Frances Gill issued her with a fine of £335.
Previously, the shocking TikTok footage was played to the court and showed a wide-eyed Rennie, of New Street, shouting at the camera and stating: 'I'll get fireworks and blow up your school.'
She was heard to say: 'It'll be another Dunblane, bang, bang, bang, bang. I'll go to the school and blow it up.
'I hope a terrorist blows up the [Musselburgh] Grammar School and the Pans school [Preston Lodge High School] for doing that to my f***ing windows.
'I can say that when kids do that to my windows and come here every f***ing night they will die.
'Your children will f***ing die for smashing my f***ing windows cos I'll blow all the f***ing bairns up, blow them up.
'Blow every single one of them up cos you don't deserve to be living today or walk and breathe.
'They don't deserve to breathe this world. They don't deserve to be here.'
Following the TikTok rant, social media users described Rennie's comments as 'despicable' and 'horrendous'.
One said: 'I can understand her being angry but to mention the Dunblane murders in that way is totally despicable. She deserves everything she gets for saying that.'
A second user said: 'This is totally out of order. What kind of person says stuff like that about innocent children dying?
'These comments are totally horrendous and I am glad she has been arrested.'
A third added: 'I hope they throw the book at her for what she said about those poor wee children.
'What kind of person says that she hopes children will die and that she hopes a terrorist blows up a school?
'She sounds like she needs medical help.'
The Dunblane massacre took place at the town's primary school near Stirling and saw gunman Thomas Hamilton kill 16 pupils and one teacher, and injure a further 15 others, on March 13, 1996.
Hamilton then killed himself and the incident remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
Rennie pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by repeatedly uttering threats to blow up a school, making intimidating gestures and making a reference to the Dunblane massacre via a TikTok livestream at her home address on November 10 last year.
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