Racist gave bomb tips to BNP thug

| Thursday, 6 July 2006 Source: Eastbourne Herald

AN EASTBOURNE pensioner who gave a BNP member a "schoolboy recipe" to make bombs, together with plans of a hotel housing asylum seekers, has walked free from court - despite being branded evil by a judge.

Allen Boyce, 74, sent right wing extremist Terry Collins a diagram entitled "to make explosives" instructing him to mix certain specified chemicals together.

He enclosed a letter saying he had visited a seafront hotel thought to house immigrants, remarking he had not spotted any "grinning Kosovans, maybe they were out shopping at the British taxpayers' expense".

Although the recipe was wrong and never used by Collins, the ex-Territorial Army and British National Party member embarked upon a 14-month campaign of racial hatred.

The 28-year-old from Eshton Road, Eastbourne, targeted three families who he picked at random because he thought they were asylum seekers or immigrants.

He then launched an unrelenting campaign to make their lives a misery, pelting their homes with stones, slashing tyres and damaging their cars.

The racist thug once taped a firework to a brick and hurled it through a window of one of his victims.

A letter from Boyce, who had no previous convictions, was found at Collins' home when he was arrested last year. Collins has since been jailed for five years.

Boyce, of Old Orchard Road, admitted inciting Collins to possess explosives.

Brighton Law Courts heard the pensioner, born in Australia to a German mother, had been involved in extreme right wing politics for some time before he was approached by Collins in 2004 for advice on making explosives.

Prosecutor Stephen Shay told the court, "In the letter he enclosed a plan of the Cambridge Hotel in Eastbourne, telling Collins it was where more than 100 bogus asylum seekers were housed.

"He also enclosed details of how to make a bomb. He said mix the ingredients together in a paper bag and to light a fuse soaked in petrol to make a large explosion.

"There was also a suggestion they should visit a gun shop together some time.

"An aggravating factor is that this was written at a time when Collins was in the middle of a campaign of racial harassment against immigrant families.

"There's no evidence Collins ever made a bomb."

Stephen Bevan, defending, said, "The focus of his life is his attachment to his religion based on an eccentric interpretation of The Bible.

"He regards what he did as wrong and knows it merits punishment.

"His ability to influence anybody is rather remote. This was a dimly remembered schoolboy recipe."

Judge Anthony Niblett passed a two-year jail sentence, but suspended it for two years because of Boyce's age, lack of previous convictions, and the fact the recipe was "non-viable".

He also ordered Boyce be supervised for two years.

He told the smartly dressed pensioner, "Australia is one of the bastions of liberty and it's quite astounding that someone from that noble country should hold these views.

"Your involvement in criminality stems from wholly misguided political views which are abhorrent to all right-minded people.

"You became involved with Terry Collins, a wicked man who's now serving a sentence of five years for his criminal activities.

"I hope on mature reflection you will understand the wrong and evil you have become involved in, because it is evil."