Terrance Gavan

Terrance Gavan (* 1970 in the United Kingdom ) is a British BNP member who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for illegally building bombs in 2010. At Gavan, "the largest store of homemade bombs in British history" was found.

background

Terrance Gavan lived with his mother in Batley , West Yorkshire . The former Royal Air Force and Royal Dragoons soldier was discharged from the army in 1993 after threatening a friend in a pub with a loaded gun.

Gavan was working as a bus driver when the house was searched. The police found 54 explosive devices in his home in May 2009, including nail bombs , hand grenades and prepared cigarette packets. There were also 12 firearms and several stabbing and striking weapons. In addition to letters from the British National Party, the police also found issues of the BNP magazine Hope and Glory and bomb-making instructions. Gavan planned an attack on a house he had seen on television in connection with the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London . The police found him after he posted some gun parts on a website.

Although Gavan had been a member of the BNP since 2007 and was known as a racist , he was not found to have any ideological ties to right-wing extremism . He was convicted of a lone perpetrator who had a strong obsession with weapons and explosives.

Individual evidence

↑ Nick Lowles : "In the Race War " Terror (ism) in Great Britain . In: The Right Edge . No. 134 (January / February), 2012, p. 28 .

↑ ^a ^b Rebecca Camber: Arsenal of hatred: 11 years for BNP loner who built bombs in his attic. Daily Mail , January 15, 2010, accessed July 17, 2013 .

^ BNP member given 11 years for making bombs and guns. The Guardian , January 15, 2010, accessed July 17, 2013 .

↑ Reza Banakar: Pre-empting Terrorism: Two Case Studies of the UK's Anti-Terrorism Legislation . In: Reza Banaka (Ed.): Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society . Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-0739-3 , pp. 209 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gavan, Terrance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British BNP member and gun collector
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	United Kingdom

[1] Nick Lowles : "In the Race War " Terror (ism) in Great Britain . In: The Right Edge . No. 134 (January / February), 2012, p. 28 .

[DM-2] Rebecca Camber: Arsenal of hatred: 11 years for BNP loner who built bombs in his attic. Daily Mail , January 15, 2010, accessed July 17, 2013 .

[3] BNP member given 11 years for making bombs and guns. The Guardian , January 15, 2010, accessed July 17, 2013 .

[4] Reza Banakar: Pre-empting Terrorism: Two Case Studies of the UK's Anti-Terrorism Legislation . In: Reza Banaka (Ed.): Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society . Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington 2011, ISBN 978-1-4094-0739-3 , pp. 209 .