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UK: White supremacist ‘on cusp’ of terrorism campaign – Neil Lewington

(UK) White supremacist ‘on cusp’ of terrorism campaign
Daily Telegraph and London Times report: “A white supremacist arrested by chance at a railway station turned out to be ‘on the cusp’ of launching a campaign of terrorism, a court heard.”
— “Neil Lewington had developed a bomb factory in his bedroom at his parents’ home and aimed to target ‘those he considered non-British,’ jurors were told.”
— “He had an ‘unhealthy interest’ in the London nail bomber David Copeland, America’s Unabomber and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, the Old Bailey heard.
— “Lewington, 43, was arrested at Lowestoft station in Suffolk last year after abusing a female train conductor”
— “He was found to be carrying the component parts of two “viable improvised incendiary devices'”
— “Later searches of his home revealed a notebook entitled “Waffen SS UK members’ handbook’ containing drawings of electronics and chemical mixtures.”

London Times also reports that:
—- “In addition to all of that the police discovered evidence that the defendant sympathised with and quite clearly adhered to white supremacist and racist views.”