Nazi paedophile jailed over bomb plot

A Nazi paedophile who made nail bombs to attack black, Asian and Jewish people has been jailed for 16 years.

A judge at Leeds Crown Court told Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Poole Court, Goole, East Yorkshire, he believed he intended to cause "havoc" with the devices found by police under his bed.

Gilleard was found guilty of terror offences and also of possessing child pornography.

Police found four nail bombs, bladed weapons, bullets, documents about terrorism and extreme right-wing literature when they were searching his flat for child pornography in October last year.

Humberside Police officers discovered around 39,000 indecent images of children, which included films and photographs and ranged from category one to five - where one is the least serious and five the most.

Gilleard admitted ten specimen counts of possessing indecent images of children on the first day of his trial for the terrorism offences.

He also pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing 34 cartridges of ammunition without holding a firearms certificate.

Gilleard was a member of a number of far-right groups, including the National Front, the British People's Party and the White Nationalist Party.

In police interviews, he admitted sympathising with white supremacists and accepted that he was racist, but said he had become less racist in recent times.

During the six-day trial, he told the court he had an interest in the Second World War and Nazism appealed to him because of the way the Nazis rebuilt Germany.

Gilleard claimed the nail bombs were not intended for serious violence and said he made them when he was bored after drinking "a couple of cans".

But the prosecution said Gilleard intended to use the weapons and documents found in his flat in terrorist acts to further his political cause.

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