Man who strangled theatregoer for singing too loudly in We Will Rock You is revealed as ex-Scottish laird who once hired a hitman to murder woman

A man convicted of strangling a fellow theatregoer for singing too loudly during a performance of the musical We Will Rock You has been identified as a former Scottish laird who previously hired a hitman in a plot to murder a woman. The case has drawn attention both for the seemingly trivial trigger behind a violent assault and for the perpetrator's startling criminal history, which includes an earlier conspiracy to have someone killed.

The article's full details—including the identities of those involved, the venue and date of the theatre incident, the outcome of the murder-for-hire plot, and any court sentencing—were not available in the retrieved text, which consisted largely of unrelated Daily Mail headlines rather than the story itself. The confirmed facts are limited to those stated in the headline: the strangling occurred during a performance of We Will Rock You and the attacker is a former Scottish laird with a prior hitman plot against a woman.