A British man from Derbyshire with bomb-making ingredients tried to flee to Bulgaria

A Derbyshire man has fled to Bulgaria after he was found with bomb-making ingredients. Police found a "significant quantity of chemicals" and several bomb-making manuals when they searched David Bodill's home in Buxton.

Following his arrest, the 29-year-old man left the UK and traveled to the Balkan states, according to the Manchester Evening News. He was extradited back to the UK earlier this year.

Yesterday (Monday) at Manchester Crown Court, a judge sentenced Bodill to two and a half years in prison. The court was aware that police searched Bodill's home in March 2020 and found various chemicals including potassium nitrate, sulphur and carbon.

Prosecutor Martin Hackett said Bodill purchased ingredients that could have been used to make gunpowder.

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He also had an "extremely right-wing worldview" and subscribed to mailings from Britain First and an Islamic fundamentalist magazine containing bomb-making instructions, the court said.

Mr. Hackett said: "This defendant's interest in bomb-making and extreme radical ideology goes beyond unhealthy and is perhaps of grave concern."