‘Death threats’ of millionaire financier

A financier threatened to murder a fellow banker in the street in a case of mistaken identity, a court heard. Thomas Rowlinson, 41, phoned Norinchukin Bank up to 25 times and directed a series of ‘very unpleasant threats’ towards one of its employees. Rowlinson called up Japanese cooperative bank’s branches in Bishopsgate and Amsterdam to make a series of unfounded allegations against the worker. ‘He was generally making very unpleasant threats suggesting he had done unpleasant things to the woman,’…