Contact the Telegraph
Send us your news tips, photos and videos Text LT and your message to 80360 or click here for more ways to contact us »
Man found guilty of Blackburn councillor poison plot
4:21pm Thursday 17th January 2008
A MAN has been found guilty of being involved in a plot to send poisoned vodka bottles through the post as part of a campaign for Scottish independence.
Wayne Cook, 45, was today convicted after two-and-a-half hours of deliberations by a jury at Manchester Crown Court.
The unemployed father of three, of Tyldesley, was found guilty under anti-terror laws of two counts of using noxious substances or things to cause harm and intimidate.
He was one of two men who sent two miniature bottles of vodka filled with lethal concentrations of caustic soda to public figures as part of a campaign by the Scottish National Liberation Army to force the UK Government out of Scotland.
The other man, Steven Robinson, a Scot, pleaded guilty to the charges at an earlier hearing.
The two packages were sent to Blackburn with Darwen councillor John Wright and Scottish Daily Express journalist Myra Philp in April 2007.
The case was adjourned until tomorrow for sentencing.
Your Say YourTelegraph
Your sayYourTelegraph
Register for a FREE Lancashire Telegraph account and you can have your say on today's news and sport by adding comments on articles we publish. The best comments may even get published in the paper.
Please register now or sign in to continue.
GUILTY: Wayne Cook
What's On Live Travel YourTelegraph
Local Advertisers
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
mb, blackburn says...
6:49pm Thu 17 Jan 08