A MAN whose video of kilted yoga sessions in a Scottish forest became a viral hit has been targeted with homophobic hate mail at his home.
Police Scotland has issued an appeal for witnesses after Finlay Wilson, from Dundee, whose Kilted Yogi videos were viewed more than 50 million times worldwide last month, received a letter telling him to leave his home and threatening his safety.
The handwritten note was left on the 30-year- old’s doorstep at his home in the city on Tuesday morning.
Mr Wilson said: “It said threatening stuff like ‘you need to watch yourself’ and they said they’d been watching my videos online and that they want me to get out. I don’t really know anyone in the building. My friends have been saying they didn’t realise this sort of thing still happened in this day and age. I was upset at first, but now I am furious because someone’s aim is to intimidate me and terrorise me into leaving my home because of their own bigoted beliefs.”
Mr Wilson, whose popular videos for the BBC Social website showed him doing yoga with Mr Scotland Tristan Cameron-Harper in the Hermitage forest in Dunkeld, Perthshire, said the abusers also threatened his dog.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Police Scotland is investigating a threatening and abusive incident in connection with a letter left outside an address in Dundee. Police Scotland does not tolerate Hate Crime in any form and everyone has the right to live safely and without fear.”
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