Former BNP candidate 'stockpiled explosives for civil war' [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

A former British National Party election candidate admitted stockpiling explosive chemicals today for an anticipated civil war in Britain.
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Opening the case for the prosecution, Louise Blackwell QC said Cottage's wife had told how he wanted to shoot Prime Minister Tony Blair and local Liberal Democrat peer Lord Greaves.

Miss Blackwell said Kerena Cottage suffered mental health problems and told a social worker her husband had several crossbows and chemicals stored in his home.
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During the swoop they discovered 21 types of chemicals which, when mixed together, could form explosives.

They also recovered a 300-page computer document called the Anarchy Cookbook which detailed how to make different types of bombs.

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(By the way, 'former' means '5 months before the arrests' - see http://www.pendle.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=286&pageNumber=2 . And note that on an election ward that elected 2 councillors, Cottage came 3rd, beating both the Conservative and Labour party candidates).