Nicky Davison, an 18 year old from Durham County, accused of plotting a terror attack, appeared in Westminster court yesterday.
Nicky – initially arrested for inciting racial hatred – and his father, Ian Davison, were arrested on the 6 June 2009 under the Terrorism Act 2000, on suspicion for being part of a global network of white supremacist terrorists, plotting to attack ethnic minorities by using the deadly substance ricin. A tiny grain of ricin is enough to kill someone if they came into direct contact with the substance. Police found in the men’s home a jam jar that contained the poison, and is believed to have been kept in a kitchen cupboard for two years.
In uncovering the white supremacist plot, Durham’s assistant chief constable Mike Barton rightly stated “This shows that the terrorist threat in the UK is real and present.”
The recent arrests closely resembles the foiled UK terror plot, where Kamel Bourgass, an Algerian al-Qaeda operative, was convicted in April 2005 for planning a biological terror attack in the UK using ricin. He has been jailed for 17 years for conspiracy to cause a ‘public nuisance’ with the plot and life for murdering a police officer.
Not only do we have Islamist terrorists wanting to kill indiscriminately in the name of religion, but white supremacists wanting to imitate Islamist terror tactics to kill non-whites.