'Tennis ball bomb' fanatic faces life.TENNIS ball bomber Neil Lewington is facing a life sentence after being convicted of planning a racist terror campaign. The white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. and neo-Nazi was found guilty at the Old Bailey of preparing for acts of terrorism. He was also found guilty of having explosives with intent to endanger life and five other terror and explosives charges. The 43-year-old unemployed electrician of Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire, was remanded in custody for sentencing on September 8. Judge Peter Thornton warned him: "The likely outcome is a lengthy sentence of imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. ." Lewington idealised Soho nail bomber David Copeland and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. He was arrested by chance on a train after travelling from Reading, through London, to Lowestoft, Suffolk, with two firebombs in a holdall in October, last year. Police found he had turned his bedroom in his parent's house into a bomb factory. It also contained three tennis balls and plans to turn them into shrapnel bombs which he said he could throw at the home of an Asian family. CAPTION(S): BOMB FACTORY: Neil Lewington, and below, items found at his home - a jar, left, marked 'igniter chem mixed' and another jar containing materials used to make explosives and a tool box ARRESTED BY CHANCE: CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television picture of Neil Lewington at Paddington Station in London * CAPTION: |
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