THE wife of a BNP council candidate acc-used of stockpiling chemicals for a civil war reported him after he stopped her watching the television, a court heard.
Kerena Cottage, 29, reported Robert, her husband of three years, after he became "radical" in his religious and political views and removed the TV aerial to shield her from 'government propaganda'.
Louise Blackwell, prosecuting, said: "He became more religious and controlling of her.
"He removed the aerial from the television so she couldn't watch what he described as the brain-washing material being put out by the government."
School bus driver Cottage, 49, is jointly accused with former dentist David Jackson, 62, of conspiring to cause an explosion between 1 January 2006 and 30 September 2006.
Cottage admitted possessing explosives between the same dates during a previous trial. But Jackson, of Trent Street, Nelson, denies the charge.
Yesterday, Manchester Crown Court, heard that Cottage took delivery of 11 boxes of chemicals and ingredients after Jackson wrote him a letter setting out what to buy.
Miss Blackwell said the investigation began after Mrs Cottage, who suffers from schizophrenia, reported her husband to her social worker who called the police.
She said: "At the start of the relationship all was well but it degenerated.
"Robert Cottage met a member of the BNP and both he and Kerena joined the organisation.
"Kerena says sometimes they would go to meetings very regularly, at which times she described his attitude as radical.
He stood on two occasions for the local elections and wasn't selected.
"Through his membership he met his co-defendant, who wasn't a member but attended meetings.
"Kerena Cottage describes her husband beginning to discuss Asian and white cultures and began listening to what she considered radical radio broadcasts over the internet."
Some time after the chemicals were delivered on 27 September to Cottage's home in Talbot Street, Colne, police arrested him.
The Crown say Cottage also had BB guns, a cross bow, gas masks, two 56 kilogram bags of sugar, a box of mini flares, half a ton of rice, 34 gas canisters, a selection of pellets and an air pistol.
Also, officers found a series of printed bomb recipes from "The Anarchist's Handbook", downloaded from the internet.
"The prosecution say these recipes, particularly though not exclusively,show what the intention was of these defendants," said Miss Blackwell.
"Namely, they intended to make an explosion from what they had.
"These two men agreed to order chemicals that put together would cause an explosion and had the ability to endanger life or cause damage to property.
"They didn't have them for any lawful purpose."
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No doubt the security level will be raised to critical and the public will be asked to be viligant towards shaven headed men wearing Union Jack underpants!
Posted by: Yakoub Islam | 05 July 2007 at 08:42 PM
Yakoub mate,
headline in today's 'The Daily Mash' -
BROWN TO HAVE UNION JACK TATTOOED ACROSS HIS BUTTOCKS
And I don't know if you caught the headlines at the weekend, but the British threat level was raised from 'Spacehopper' to 'Underpants' -
UK THREAT LEVEL RAISED TO 'UNDERPANTS'
The usual British newspaper scaremongering - cheap headline grabbing tactics if you ask me!
all the best!
Posted by: joe90 | 06 July 2007 at 04:09 PM
Thousands of bigoted extremists took to the streets of Glasgow at the weekend, attacking police and the public, and causing violent mayhem.
Why do these extremists refuse to apologise for their fundamentalist views - and why do they persist in apologising for the violent extremists in their midst, with their messege of hate, violence and Orange Jihad as prescribed in their holy scripture, The Bible (one of the most genocidal documents ever written)?
When are their leaders going to issue a worldwide fatwa against the radicals whom they seem only too happy to have within their so-called peace-loving, but highly secretive, organisation...etc etc blah blah blah..?
Police hurt during Orange arrests
BBC Scotland
Tues 10 July 2007
But just like BNP terrorism, don't expect any screaming anti-Muslim type BBC headlines!
ps
I gather there was also a peaceful law-abiding rally at the weekend called 'Scotland United Against Terrorism', attended by the Deputy Head of the Scottish Government, as well as other notable Scottish big-cheeses, I am very happy to report - spreading the messege of togetherness and community-ness!
Posted by: joe90 | 10 July 2007 at 08:47 PM
Still keeping things serious,
here is 'Lenin's Tomb' with some really serious stuff about how some indefinable foreign alien thingies, that are a threat to our way of life thingy, are able to move about the globe like ghost thingies, ..er
'Al Qaeda': they get around.
11 July 2007
They can slip into any situation unnoticed...
...There's 'Al Qaeda' in Iraq, there's 'Al Qaeda' in Somalia, there's 'Al Qaeda' in Afghanistan, there's 'Al Qaeda' in Europe, there's 'Al Qaeda' in London, there's 'Al Qaeda' in Indonesia, there's 'Al Qaeda' in China, there's 'Al Qaeda' in Palestine...
Perhaps we have underestimated these guys...
'Al Qaeda'...have some extremely cool technology: they use sonic departiculifiers, teleporters, and transporter beams supplied by the Enterprise, to project themselves across hugely disparate political matrices, uploading their virtual selves into the bodies of local militants like Agent Smith, insinuating themselves effortlessly into the most complex conflicts. Why stop at Palestine?
Posted by: joe90 | 11 July 2007 at 10:16 PM
In one thing this guy seems to be right. Most of the stuff we get from the TV is meant to condition us into acceptance of authority, the fake "war on terror", the islamic 'menace', etc. So we are being brainwashed. Pity he then takes it out on the wrong people.
Posted by: Rory Winter | 13 July 2007 at 03:18 AM