A former British National Party election candidate and a dentist face trial today accused of conspiring to cause an explosion.
Robert Cottage, 49, of Colne, Lancashire, and David Jackson, 62, of Nelson, Lancashire, were charged under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 after chemical components were allegedly found at Cottage's house last September.
Both men deny conspiracy to cause an explosion with intent to harm life or property and possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.
Cottage stood for the BNP in last May's local elections in Colne.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court is expected to last up to 10 days. The case begins at 10.30am in Court 3 before Justice Beatson, if you fancy going and watching.
Keep an eye on the media. The original case was covered by bloggers but virtually no straight media - it'll be interesting to see how far media coverage goes this time (and to compare it with the coverage accorded to any potential threat involving Muslims).
Lancaster UAF
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Robert Cottage, 49, of Colne, Lancashire, and David Jackson, 62, of Nelson, Lancashire, were charged under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 after chemical components were allegedly found at Cottage's house last September.
Both men deny conspiracy to cause an explosion with intent to harm life or property and possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.
Cottage stood for the BNP in last May's local elections in Colne.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court is expected to last up to 10 days. The case begins at 10.30am in Court 3 before Justice Beatson, if you fancy going and watching.
Keep an eye on the media. The original case was covered by bloggers but virtually no straight media - it'll be interesting to see how far media coverage goes this time (and to compare it with the coverage accorded to any potential threat involving Muslims).
Lancaster UAF
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largest ever found
12.02.2007 13:37
by Charlie Kimber
What ought to be a high-profile trial concerning explosives and a massive haul of chemicals begins today. It will be interesting to see how the media handle it.
David Jackson, 62, of Trent Road, Nelson, is charged with possessing an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. He is charged alongside 49-year-old Robert Cottage, of Talbot Street, Colne.
The pair are set to appear before Mr Justice Beatson at Manchester Crown Court.
Police found rocket launchers, chemicals, British National Party literature and a nuclear or biological suit at Jackson’s home last October.
This came shortly after the force recovered 22 chemical components from Cottage’s home.
The haul is thought to be the largest ever found at a house in Britain.
Cottage stood as a BNP candidate in local elections at Colne last May.
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Charlie Kimber
So what happened?
12.02.2007 21:08
Hopefully even if the corporate media are too scared to publish stuff someone can do so here...
observer
A deafening silence
12.02.2007 23:31
Fucked if we know. As far as we can see there have been no reports on the first day anywhere - unless the dailies report in the morning, though we doubt that'll happen. Unless someone can get their butt up to the courtroom each day it looks like all we're going to hear is a deafening silence until the day the case ends - and then who knows what we'll hear.
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Cottage Pleads Guilty
13.02.2007 13:32
James JOnes
Breaking news
13.02.2007 13:48
The BBC has just produced news. Once again, BBC bias in favour of BNP is blatant. You can bet your bottom dollar if that a muslim held all these explosives the BBC would collude with the police and make up a story like "Muslims Planned to Blow Up a Primary School" or something on those lines. Instead the BBC take it at face value what the BNP man said, explosive required for self defence. BNP have a track record of terrorism, remember Bomber David Copeland and all the racists murders they have carried over the years.
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Ex-BNP my arse
13.02.2007 14:33
Ex-BNP - A lie.
Wants to kill Tony Blair - Don't we all.
Stockpiling weapons - I bet he reads Guns 'n Ammo
The weapons stockpiling is reference here:
Yep, if he was Muslim, we'd never hear (or see) the end of it.
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Red Letter is a Middle-Clarse Twat
13.02.2007 20:57
Please shut the fuck up and take your 6th form common-room politics(sic) somewhere else.
Ketlan's Mummy
whats more
13.02.2007 21:37
What sentence will Cottage get? Dhiren Barot was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 2006 with the recommendation that he serve a minimum of 40 years for conspiracy to commit murder.
This was despite the fact that Barot had not acquired any bomb-making materials to carry out alleged terrorist activities. Will Cottage receive a similar sentence?
Ketlan Mummy whats rattle your cage?
whats more
Dur, Kev's back...
13.02.2007 23:35
Watmough's arse
Cottage's defence
14.02.2007 20:54
Increase Brain cells
Promote hair growth
Reduce beer bellies
In addition, combat premature ejaculation
He reckons he could make a fortune just selling to white supremacists
Combat Combat 18
Typical...
14.02.2007 20:55
The Government must support the BNP nothing ever happens to them when they do wrong.
D.E.F1981
A Political use of pseudo explosives?
14.02.2007 21:28
When I saw the initial headlines put to this case I was sure it was a fraud. Maybe the biggest variety of chemicals, But the biggest haul of explosive chemicals ever? Has anyone seen a list of the quantities, were any of them mixed to make an explosive? Were any of them as easily mixed to lethal effect as the common cleaning chemicals that can be purchased, and found in many homes? Was there singularly bad advice from a Lawyer that a plea of guilty should be entered to a charge of possessing explosives.
Was a very soft deal offered for that by the prosecution so that the electorate might be horrified at the BNP bomb connection and the Labour Party benefit at the polls ? - though the net electoral effect might be "The BNP have a man who wants to shoot Blair, If the Labour Party cannot dump that traitor, perhaps we had better vote BNP." There are exciting times ahead unless there is a universal consensus to string up all the Politicians. I fear it is already too late to gain any benefit from that. Blair and Brown have done their job. They have made Socialism in Britain impossible. Any sort pf socialism.
Instead of advancing to Higher Communism they have ensured a collapse back to Primitive Communism - if anyone survives the catastrophe they have induced.
Read up Zerzan.
Ilyan
in the ranks
15.02.2007 02:36
funny that ilyan is here and twilight isn't
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