Man accused of making calls threatening to kill SA Premier Steven Marshall made ‘promise’, court told

A man accused of threatening to kill South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and his children was not making an idle threat, but a “promise”, a court has heard.

Kenneth Andrew Gillespie, 65, has pleaded not guilty to threatening a public officer in Adelaide’s District Court.

He is accused of ringing the electoral office of the Premier on September 2018, days after the State Government had announced it would close several metropolitan and regional TAFE campuses.

Electoral officer Sam Diprose told the jury that he was working at Mr Marshall’s…