Racist Paedophile Terrorist jailed
By DAVE HIGGENS
A NAZI paedophile who made nail bombs to attack black, Asian and Jewish people was jailed yesterday for 16 years.
A judge at Leeds Crown Court told Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Goole, Yorkshire, he believed that he had intended to cause "havoc" with the devices found by police under his bed. Gilleard, who was arrested in Dundee after fleeing the investigation, was found guilty of terrorism offences and of possessing child pornography.
Police found four nail bombs, bladed weapons, bullets, documents about terrorism and extreme right-wing literature when searching his flat for child pornography in October last year.
Humberside Police officers discovered about 39,000 indecent images of children, including films and photographs and ranging from category one to five where five is the most serious.
Gilleard had earlier admitted ten specimen counts of possessing indecent images of children. He also pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to possessing 34 cartridges of ammunition without holding a firearms certificate.
A further search of Gilleard’s flat by police and the Counter Terrorism Unit in Leeds uncovered more explosive material, camouflage clothing, balaclavas, a bomb-making manual and outdoor survival guides. They also found gunpowder, ready-made fuses and a notebook containing handwritten expressions of extreme anti-Semitic views.
A search of his workplace found a high-visibility jacket that had been modified with a swastika and Combat 18 (an extreme right-wing group) lettering. His colleagues told police that Gilleard had expressed racist views.
A manhunt was launched when Gilleard failed to return home after the original search of his flat. He was eventually found three days later in Dundee.
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. In police interviews, he admitted sympathising with white supremacists and accepted that he was racist, but said he had become less racist in recent times.
During the trial, he told the court he had an interest in the Second World War and that Nazism appealed to him because of the way it had rebuilt Germany.
Gilleard claimed the nail bombs, which he made because he was bored, were not intended for serious violence. But the prosecution said he had intended to use the weapons found in his flat in terrorist acts to further his political cause.
Judge John Milford, QC, told him: "It’s clear to me you have a deep-seated hatred of persons who are black, Asian and Jewish. You believe the time has come to⦠engage in direct action against them."
The Scotsman Edinburgh
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