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TERRORIST TRIAL

A suspected neo-Nazi kept four home-made nail bombs under the bed he let his five-year-old son sleep in, a court heard.

Shaven-headed Martyn Gilleard (31), a member of white supremacist groups, made the potentially-lethal devices in case he needed them to "further his political cause".

During a raid on Mr Gilleard's home in Goole in October last year police found the four nail bombs, a large quantity of potentially lethal bladed weapons, 34 .22 bullets and documents from the internet.

Prosecutor Andrew Edis, QC, told the all-male jury that some of the documents revealed that Mr Gilleard, of Pool Court in Goole, was a member of white supremacist groups and described his agenda with the NS - the National Socialist party.

Mr Edis said: "Due to recent events, when people think of terrorist they think of Jihadist groups but it wasn't always like that. Twenty years ago it would have been the IRA. Terrorism is not specific to a religious or ideological cause.

"In his flat police also found a large CD collection and his taste was in the admiration of bands whose work many would find frightening and repellent.

"It is pretty clear that Martyn Gilleard is a man who admires Nazism."

Leeds Crown Court heard this week that forklift truck driver Gilleard, who is charged with three offences under the Terrorism Act, used the password Martyn1488 for his computer.

The 14 was in reference to the words coined by David Lane, a hero to white supremacists in the US, and founder of a white supremacist paramilitary organisation where the 14-word sentence 'We must secure the existence of our race and the future of white children'.'

The 88 was in reference to the eighth letter of the alphabet 'H' meaning HH - Heil Hitler.

Mr Edis described one document that Mr Gilleard had written saying that it was time to start acting, there was too much bar stool nationalism and not enough courageous action to save the country from the multi-racial peril he believed it was in.

Mr Edis said: "Whether Mr Gilleard is a harmless fantacist or it was for academic interest or a bizarre fascination, it was a collection of four perfectly functioning bombs, fully functioning ammunition for use in connection with furthering a political cause.

"Mr Gilleard accepted that he was a racist but that he did not intend to harm anyone. But recently he has become less racist and become more interested in his own life and that of his son.

"But how long would you keep bombs under a bed for if you had a child that slept in there?

"When questioned by police Mr Gilleard admitted that he had made the bombs 'ages ago', just to see if he could after having a few cans. He said that the weapons were left over from work and the bullets had been given to him by a work colleague after he learned he was interested in hunting."

Mr Edis told the jury that when the bombs were assessed by a bomb expert he concluded that it was "a quite viable IED (improvised explosive device)".

Mr Gilleard denies all three counts, but has previously pleaded guilty to possessing the ammunition.

Gilleard, a Hitler fanatic, wrote out an "Anarchists' cookbook", the court was told.

Prosecutor Andrew Edis said: "Mr Gilleard found the cookbook on the internet and painstakingly and labouriously wrote it out in his own hand.

"It was a list of things that could be made and included: explosives from bleach, letterbombs, napalm, smoke bombs, lightbulb bombs and a 'Hindenberg bomb', amongst other things."

He also told the jury about some items that were found when his flat was raided last October including pictures of Hitler, a Nazi dagger and photos of German soldiers in WWII and members of the Hitler Youth.

Mr Edis said: "There were also references to Combat 18, a right-wing and violent organisation whose motto is When we're good no one remembers, when we're bad no one forgets, with the image of a skull.

"There was also a shopping list that contained items such as nails, fuse wire and a pistol crossbow with spare bolts.

"As well as information on 'How to assassinate people and get away with it by using poison', this was a terrorist manual broadcast by a group called White Honour.

"Gilleard was a fully-fledged member of the White Nationalist Party, the National Front and the British People's Party."

The trial continues.

Published on 19th June 2008 in News.

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