Eccentric but not a terrorist

[not-bono-ever]

Security alert man had mortars and explosives

The expletive-ridden YouTube immigration rant by engineer caught with explosives


A hobbyist apparently. Look at his stash of goodies


“85 knives, 29 lock knives, three swords, two crossbow bolts with razor blades inserted, a knife disguised as a credit card and an axe on the A689 near Coundon; having an offensive weapon - three batons, two knuckle dusters, a baseball bat torch and a truncheon - at the same location; two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon, relating to pepper spray.”

And Evidence of IED manufacture and use

 

[xenon]

This did make me laugh though.
""The use which the devices were contemplated is demonstrated in a series of videos in which the defendant exploded pieces of fruit and damaged a laptop"

All perfectly normal sane hobbiest stuff. Painting water colours, building model train sets... ranting about imigrants, making explosives and threatening children with a crossbow.

 

[Poi E]

They'll be offering guys like him a job soon.

 

[likesfish]

blokes a nutter and was self-radicalized but needed a few more steps to be classed as an actual terrorist.
potential target list an identifiable ideology etc. Something anything that meant he was motivated to commit violence for a cause.

It's often easier to get some convicted for what they did collected weapons played around with explosives than a terrorist offense when they haven't signed up to a specific group or ideology. That said his sentence plan will mark him as a Tacc offender and he will be classed as a terrorist by the authorities