A TEENAGER from the Tamworth area with an "unhealthy interest" in explosives and fascist politics has appeared in court alongside a man from Amington, to face charges relating to making potentially- lethal weapons.

The court heard that police found a pipe packed with nails and screws and charged with gunpowder, in the bedroom of the 16-year- old.

He had made the explosive device with chemicals bought off the Internet.

The youngster also had right wing literature from the BNP and the English Defence League, together with Nazi emblems - one of them in the middle of his bed.

His family home was immediately evacuated while explosives and firearms experts were called in to search the property.

As the search entered its third day, another explosive device was reported hidden under a waste oil tank at Tomson's Garage in Glascote Road.

Mr Malcolm Morse, prosecuting, said the device had the appearance of a home-made sawn-off shotgun.

In one of the "barrels" was a firework with the fuse extending out of it.

The device was taken to Sutton Coldfield police station, which later had to be evacuated while experts assessed how dangerous it was.

Some tape holding the barrels together had human hair and fingerprints which belonged to a co-accused, 27-year-old Jonathan Cunningham, of Greenheart, Amington, who was also arrested. Cunningham said he had put the device under the oil tank to hide it from the police.

He also tried to take the blame for making it, saying he wanted to show the boy how to do it, but Mr Morse told Stafford Crown Court the prosecution did not accept that.

"[The boy] was perfectly capable of making devices of this kind with no assistance."

In court, Mr Morse said the teen had been asked specifically about the right-wing political literature by concerned officers.

"He denied any specific interest in right-wing politics, and he expressed a general interest in the acquisition of Continued on Page 2

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"He denied supporting the views of either the BNP or the English Defence League, that was his explanation.

"It is to an extent contradicted by some evidence from a lecturer at the college where he studies.

"Her recollection is he was outspoken among his peers in support of such views.

"It is the case that while material of this nature was found, material of a contrary view was not.

"The prosecution, in drawing attention to this literature, is making no comment on its content.

"I am merely indicating the presence of it, together with the ingredients and the skill for making explosives," Mr Morse told Judge John Wait.

He said the mother of one of the boy's friends had also handed in a video clip from a mobile phone camera showing an explosive device being detonated in a tree.

The clip was labelled with the teenage defendant's name and the word "bomb".

A police search of the 16-year-old's family home on January 30 this year, was triggered by an eBay seller who was concerned about commoditie
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