A RECORDING of a police call in which a pilot said he would shoot dead UKIP leader Nigel Farage and another man has been played to jurors.

Justin Adams, whose plane crashed with Mr Farage on board on election day last May, denies five counts of making threats to kill the MEP and aircrash investigator Martin James.

The 46-year-old, from Buckland, near Faringdon, phoned police on November 28 and spoke to a civilian call handler.

Adams called police at about 7pm asking for the out-of-hours number for the Civilian Aviation Authority, jurors at Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday.

During the recorded call, he was heard to say “I’ve lost my wife, my house, my child” since the crash and blamed Mr James for not speaking to him sooner during the investigation, which eventually absolved the defendant of any blame.

Police call handler Sharon Bailey told Adams Mr James was only doing his job, to which the pilot replied: “He can do his job in a nice way or he can do it as an ****hole and if he does it as option B he will reap the rewards.”

Talking about the gun, he said: “I now have the means, I’ve only got eight bullets, but I only need four.” He went on to explain he would use one for Mr Farage, one for Mr James and one for himself.