Man who built explosives timer on bail gets 12 years

A MAN who constructed a timer for an explosive device months after gardaí uncovered a huge cache of explosive components in a shed at his parent’s home has been jailed for 12 years at the Special Criminal Court.

Nicholas Kendall, aged 21, of Row Street, Wexford, had pleaded guilty to nine counts relating to the unlawful possession of a variety of explosive substances, including chemical components for Semtex, components of fusing systems for mortar bombs, improvised timing power units, explosive propellant powder and clothes pegs adapted to act as electro-mechanical switches.

Gardaí found the cache after raids on his parent’s rural home at Springcrest, Keelogues, Barntown, Co Wexford, and a house at Cortown, Togher, Dunleer, Co Louth, on October 8, 2010.