UK: White Supremacist Wanted to Throw Tennis Ball Bombs at Asian Neighbors

A British court has heard testimony against Neil Lewington, an alcoholic 43-year old white supremacist, who allegedly conspired to unleash terrorist bombings against his Asian neighbors and others not considered British enough.

What's interesting about Lewington's plan, reports BBC.com, was what material he planned to make his improvised incendiary devices with.

Ms Little [Lewington's girlfriend] told the court how the defendant had "gone on about" the tennis ball bombs after passing her neighbours in the street.

"He was going on about bombs - that he could make bombs out of tennis balls and he asked me for their house number, which I didn't know," she said.

"He said it would be easy to throw something or leave something there because no-one would see who did it. Presumably he was talking about tennis balls."

Lewington was arrested for urinating on a train platform and abusing a female train conductor last October, reports The Daily Mirror. On him, the police found bomb making material. Further searches of the defendant's room at his parents' house uncovered a bomb making factory for the devices along with a notebook entitled "Waffen SS UK Members' handbook," which contained drawings of electronics and chemical mixtures. The court also heard how Lewington idolized London nailbomber David Copeland and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. 

Lewington denies all eight terrorism and explosives charges against him.

This suspected case of British rightwing extremism comes after rightwing terrorist attacks in the United States that targeted a prominent late-term abortion provider and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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