England - Man faces court over letter bombs [Photo of suspect released]

Press Association (UK) (excerpt) ^ | February 28, 2007

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

A primary school caretaker has appeared in court charged over a series of letter bombings.

Miles Cooper, 27, accused of 12 offences under the Explosive Substances Act and the Offences Against the Person Act, appeared at Banbury Magistrates' Court in Oxfordshire. He was arrested at his home on the outskirts of Cambridge at around 3am on Monday following a surveillance operation.

Seven of the 12 charges relate to seven letter bombs, three of which were posted to forensic science laboratories, one to a residential address and another three to companies with links to traffic enforcement. The other five charges against Cooper relate to the people who were injured after opening them.

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[The KG9 Kid]

I sense that this will become a well exploited photograph on FR over the coming years.

[dandelion]

I... don't know what to say...

My sense of propriety is warring with the notion that this surely MUST be an outtake still from "Mr. Bean"...

[jdm]

Bandwidth leaders.

[philetus]

Why was the suspect released?

[Overseez]

That boy don't look right.

:-)

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

You think that's bad, you should see his parents and their cat.

[Dallas59]

HA HA HA HA!!!

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

Miles Cooper and his wife, during happier times.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

According to the Beeb:

"And two of the parcels contained names of animal rights protesters, including Barry Horne who was jailed and died while on hunger strike in 2001."


He's an animal rights kook!! I guess animals lives are more valuable than humans.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

Aren't you in the UK?