Neo-Nazi who plotted ‘lone wolf’ terror attack on British Asians using shrapnel bombs disguised as tennis balls could be freed after parole hearing – #terror

Neil Lewington was given an indeterminate sentence in 2009 over the plot He turned his bedroom into a bomb-making factory to emulate his idols. A white supremacist arrested on the verge of unleashing a terror campaign on ‘non-British’ people using shrapnel bombs has a parole hearing and could be freed. Neo-Nazi Neil Lewington, then 43, was given an indeterminate sentence in September 2009 for a ‘lone-wolf’ plot to cause carnage by hurling tennis balls laden with explosives into the homes of Asian families. The fanatic turned his bedroom into a bomb-making factory so he could emulate his idols including London nail bomber David Copeland and Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. Calling himself the Waffen SS UK, the unemployed electrician was only thwarted when he was arrested by chance at Lowestoft railway station, Suffolk, for drunkenly abusing a female conductor. When he was stopped and searched at the station in October 2008 he was found to be carrying components for two ‘viable improvised incendiary devices’. Anti-terror police then raided the home where he lived with his parents in Reading and found evidence that he planned to make tennis ball shrapnel bombs to target Asian families, along with detonators and explosives. They also discovered a notebook entitled ‘Waffen SS UK members’ handbook’ with a logbook of drawings of electronics and chemical devices. The link between his extremist views and interest in explosives was illustrated by a note reading ‘compressed thermite grenade vs Pi front door’. He also wrote a chilling ‘mission statement’ in which he boasted of two-man hit squads attacking ‘non-British people’ at random. Lewington told one woman that ‘the only good Pi was a dead P**i’. At London’s Old Bailey on September 8, 2009 he was given an indeterminate sentence for public protection and told he must serve at least six years in jail after being convicted of having explosives with intent to endanger life and preparing for terrorism.

via daily mail: Neo-Nazi who plotted ‘lone wolf’ terror attack on British Asians using shrapnel bombs disguised as tennis balls could be freed after parole hearing