Transexual's Home-Made Bomb Threat

A killer transexual - rejected by the Army as a bomb disposal expert years ago - was caught by police with home-made explosives after threatening to shoot herself.

Former prostitute Angie Dews, 43, - born Mark Camm - stabbed a client, who became her boyfriend, to death fifteen years ago and a murder charge was dropped on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

She pleaded guilty to three counts of making explosives at Southleigh Community Hospital, Brighton Road, Purley on or before January 18 and today received a two-year supervision order with a mental health treatment requirement.

The hospital had to be evacuated when police found the bombs and specialist officers confirmed they were viable explosive devises.

"It is apparent to me you were not thinking very clearly when you made these improvised devices at your home," Croydon Crown Court Judge Jeremy Gold QC told Dews. "

"Bearing in mind the sensitivity surrounding explosive devises it is not surprising your case has been treated as seriously as it has."

Dews, who received a hospital order without limit of time, at the Old Bailey in 1998 for the manslaughter of her partner has been in custody since her arrest.

"Despite that conviction, which is all in the past, it doesn't seem to me, providing you are subjected to a proper regime of treatment, that you are a risk to the community at large.

"You must not do this again, however desperate you are in your personal life," added Judge Gold.

Prosecutor Miss Shekinah Anson told the court: "The defendant telephoned her step-mother, saying she had made a gun, and was going to kill herself if she was not told she was loved by her step-mother.

"Her step-mother phoned the police and when officers went to the hospital on a welfare check they found the improvised explosive devices on a table in the defendant's room."

Dews had been under the supervision of Springfield Hospital's mental health team and a social worker since her release from a secure hospital on November 30, 2010.

She told police she built the IED's in response to her rejection from the armed forces in the 1990's, which destroyed her dream of becoming a bomb disposal expert.

Dews claimed she failed the exam by two questions and the Army interviewer told her she would never make it as a bomb specialist.

The construction of the bombs was an attempt to prove she was up the role.