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| Man jailed over nail bombs plot | Man jailed over nail bombs plot |
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| A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs under his bed has been jailed for a total of 16 years. | A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs under his bed has been jailed for a total of 16 years. |
| Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Goole, East Yorkshire, stashed four home-made explosive devices, as well as bullets, swords, axes and knives in his flat. | Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Goole, East Yorkshire, stashed four home-made explosive devices, as well as bullets, swords, axes and knives in his flat. |
| Gilleard was sentenced to 11 years for terrorism offences and five years following the discovery of child pornography at his flat. | Gilleard was sentenced to 11 years for terrorism offences and five years following the discovery of child pornography at his flat. |
| The court heard he had wanted to "save" Britain from "multi-racial peril". | The court heard he had wanted to "save" Britain from "multi-racial peril". |
| Officers from Humberside Police found the weapons and far-right literature when they were searching his flat for child pornography in October last year. | |
| An idea popped up and I thought, 'Why not?' I thought, 'I've got pretty much what I need,' and I threw them together Martyn Gilleard | |
| Police discovered about 39,000 indecent images, the films and photographs ranged from category one to five - five being the most serious. | |
| Gilleard admitted to 10 specimen counts of possessing indecent images of children, on the first day of his trial for the terrorism offences. The jury were not told of these offences until the end of his terrorism trial. | |
| During trial, Gilleard also admitted having a collection of Nazi memorabilia, saying Nazism had appealed to him because of the way the Nazis had "rebuilt" Germany. | |
| The jury was told police had found "potentially lethal bladed weapons", 34 bullets for a .22 calibre firearm, and printouts from the internet about committing acts of terrorism. | |
| These included instructions on how to make a bomb and how to kill someone with poison. | These included instructions on how to make a bomb and how to kill someone with poison. |
| Explaining why he made the bombs, Gilleard said: "I'd had a couple of cans. I was just sat around bored." | |
| "An idea popped up and I thought, 'Why not?' I thought, 'I've got pretty much what I need,' and I threw them together." | |
| Detective Chief Superintendent John Parkinson said on Tuesday: "Martyn Gilleard is a terrorist as the court has demonstrated today in its verdict." |