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25/06/2008
'Nazi Sympathiser' Jailed For 16 Years
A 'Nazi sympathiser' who stored nail bombs under his bead has been put behind bars for a total of 16 years.
Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Pool Court, Goole, East Yorkshire, was charged last November after a police raid found four home-made nail bombs, bladed weapons, bullets and documents about terrorism in his flat.
Although he claimed the bombs were not intended for serious violence and said he made them when he was bored after drinking "a couple of cans", it is reported that Gilleard had said he "intended to use the weapons and documents" to "further his political cause".
At the time of the arrest, Gilleard was a member of a number of far-right groups, including the National Front, the British People's Party and the White Nationalist Party.
Gilleard has been sentenced to 11 years for terrorism offences and a further five years following the discovery of child porn at his home.
His activities were uncovered after police conducted a search for child pornography at his flat and found 39,000 indecent images on his computers.
After his home was raided last October, Gilleard fled to Dundee where he was arrested three days later.
He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing 34 cartridges of ammunition without being in receipt of a firearms certificate.
He also admitted 10 specimen counts of possession of indecent photographs of children on the first day of his trial for the terrorism offences.
A news source states that about 39,000 indecent images of children were seized.
Prosecuting, Andrew Edis QC, told the court that one document, in Gilleard's handwriting suggested he wanted to "save his country" from the "multi-racial peril".
It is also reported that Gilleard said, in a handwritten speech, that he is "sick and tired of hearing nationalists talk of killing Muslims, of blowing up mosques, of fighting back, only to see these acts of resistance fail to appear".
"The time has come to stop the talk and start to act," he said.
It is reported that Gilleard, who has a young child by a former partner, worked as a fork-lift driver at a timber yard.
It is believed that a jacket bearing a swastika with lettering alluding to Combat 18, was found at the timber yard where he worked.
Detective Chief Superintendant John Parkinson, Head of the Leeds Counter Terrorism Unit said that Gilleard "had access to weapons and more frighteningly, explosives" and that it could "only be assumed" that "his intention was to use them".
(DS)
Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Pool Court, Goole, East Yorkshire, was charged last November after a police raid found four home-made nail bombs, bladed weapons, bullets and documents about terrorism in his flat.
Although he claimed the bombs were not intended for serious violence and said he made them when he was bored after drinking "a couple of cans", it is reported that Gilleard had said he "intended to use the weapons and documents" to "further his political cause".
At the time of the arrest, Gilleard was a member of a number of far-right groups, including the National Front, the British People's Party and the White Nationalist Party.
Gilleard has been sentenced to 11 years for terrorism offences and a further five years following the discovery of child porn at his home.
His activities were uncovered after police conducted a search for child pornography at his flat and found 39,000 indecent images on his computers.
After his home was raided last October, Gilleard fled to Dundee where he was arrested three days later.
He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possessing 34 cartridges of ammunition without being in receipt of a firearms certificate.
He also admitted 10 specimen counts of possession of indecent photographs of children on the first day of his trial for the terrorism offences.
A news source states that about 39,000 indecent images of children were seized.
Prosecuting, Andrew Edis QC, told the court that one document, in Gilleard's handwriting suggested he wanted to "save his country" from the "multi-racial peril".
It is also reported that Gilleard said, in a handwritten speech, that he is "sick and tired of hearing nationalists talk of killing Muslims, of blowing up mosques, of fighting back, only to see these acts of resistance fail to appear".
"The time has come to stop the talk and start to act," he said.
It is reported that Gilleard, who has a young child by a former partner, worked as a fork-lift driver at a timber yard.
It is believed that a jacket bearing a swastika with lettering alluding to Combat 18, was found at the timber yard where he worked.
Detective Chief Superintendant John Parkinson, Head of the Leeds Counter Terrorism Unit said that Gilleard "had access to weapons and more frighteningly, explosives" and that it could "only be assumed" that "his intention was to use them".
(DS)
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