A white supremacist was convicted guilty of terrorist charges after blowing up the family kitchen while making gunpowder.
Vaughn Dolphin, aged 19, declared himself a “dangerous lunatic” and set fire to the kitchen of his aunt’s house in Walsall, West Midlands.
The inside of the shed was adorned with a Nazi Waffen SS emblem, and bags of bomb-making materials were stored in a freezer in his bedroom.
Dolphin had downloaded bomb-making information onto a USB stick in a folder marked “Boogaloo” – an allusion to a racial conflict that white nationalists sought to create in order to seize control of the government.
A length of metal tubing with a hole bored into it to construct a crude, improvised gun barrel and a jar holding nitrocellulose, a propellant used in shotgun cartridges, were also in the shed.
On June 14 last year, Dolphin posted a series of video clips to a far-right Telegram chatroom called the Segregation Wagon, showing his kitchen filled with smoke.
Wearing a gas mask, he could be heard saying: “The bastard mixture f****** set itself off prematurely, oh my God.
“That was a bad f****** idea, it was so bad the f****** carbon monoxide meter went off. I started choking so I had to put this on. Oh my gosh.”