Loser Blames Miserable Life On Non-Whites

A jobless loser - who lived in misery with his mum and dad - trawled the internet for online romance and made homemade bombs in his lonely bedroom to arm himself in a white supremacy campaign of terror.

Unemployed Neil Lewington, 43, had not uttered a word to his father in ten years at the family home in Tilehurst, Reading where police found weedkiller, firelighters, three tennis balls with diagrams on how to convert them into shrapnel bombs, firework powder, electrical timers and detonators.

He was carrying components for two home-made bombs when arrested last October at Lowestoft Station, Suffolk for abusing a female train conductor en route to an internet date. 

"Neil Lewington clearly set out to make viable devices which could have seriously injured or possibly killed members of the public going about their daily lives," said Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner John McDowall.

A notebook labelled "Waffen SS UK members' handbook" included a "device logbook" of drawings of electronics and chemical mixtures was also seized by investigators.

Prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the Old Bailey, where Lewington will be sentenced later : "This man, who had strong if not fanatical right-wing leanings and opinions, was on the cusp of embarking on a campaign of terrorism against those he considered non-British.

"The defendant had in his possession the component parts of two viable improvised incendiary devices.

"He had the parts which, if assembled together, would have created devices which if ignited would have caught alight and caused flames and fire.

"Later searches of the house where the defendant lived, in particular his own bedroom, revealed nothing short of a factory for the production of many such similar devices."

DAC McDowall added: "Whilst our inquiries did not uncover any details about intended targets, we do not underestimate the impact that Lewington's actions and extremist beliefs may have had on communities nationwide."

His online chats did not always impress the ladies. He told one would-be date : "The only good paki is a dead paki."

The jury convicted him of seven of eight explosives and terrorism charges, rejecting his defence of being more of an oddball than a danger to the public.