Ashley Parkes ( above ) sent a fake bomb to the manager of a Boots store on the anniversary of the 7/7 London terror attacks last year . He was given a suspended sentence for 18 months at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday . A Boots worker who sent a fake bomb to a store on the anniversary of the 7/7 London terror attacks has been spared jail . Ashley Parkes attached a chilling note to the rectangular package , which read : 'Handle with care - bombs explode . ' Police were alerted and a store in Leeds , where the parcel was delivered last year , was evacuated until experts examined the package . They quickly discovered it was a hoax and only contained hair dye and blue tissue paper , Nottingham Crown Court was told . The 26-year-old , who worked in a Boots warehouse at the time , admitted dispatching a parcel with the intention of inducing a belief that it was likely to explode or ignite and cause personal injury or damage to property . He was sentenced to 12 months in prison , suspended for 18 months , and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work . Judge Michael Stokes QC , sentencing , said : 'Sending you immediately to prison would perhaps misrepresent the seriousness of what you did . 'In the present day society anybody who produces a package and even pretends it is a bomb is creating a great deal of trouble and potential risk to innocent people . 'It had been a pathetic attempt by Parkes but it still resulted in a store being evacuated and a great deal of public expense and inconvenience to a large number of people . ' Julia King , prosecuting , told the court Parkes sent the hoax bomb after seeing a film on YouTube of gravestones being desecrated . She said : 'It affected him and that was why he acted in the way he did . ' Ms King added that the manager had been left shocked and nervous after the incident . The Boots store in Leeds had to be evacuated and experts were called in to examine the package . Above , a stock image of a Boots store in the UK . The court heard Parkes , of Bestwood , Nottingham , has mild learning difficulties and is on medication for depression . Steven Gosnell , defending , acknowledged it was a peculiar case and said Parkes was never intending to cause injury . He said : 'Parkes , who lost his job , did what he did on the spur of the moment and has apologised . '
Ashley Parkes sent the rectangular package to a Boots store in Leeds . 26-year-old attached a note that read : 'Handle with care - bombs explode ' Experts discovered it was a hoax and contained hair dye and tissue paper . Given 18-month suspended sentence at Nottingham Crown Court .