The police source said that in addition to attacks Currie admitted, "there are another eight or nine that in our opinion are of a very similar nature. The judge ordered that this offence should lie on file. That device exploded on the porch of Mr Blackburn's home in Beaconsfield, Bucks, while his wife and daughter were inside.Ĭurrie, unemployed and of no fixed abode, denied involvement in an arson attack on a warehouse in Williton, Somerset, in April 2005, in which the warehouse of a firm manufacturing transportation devices was seriously damaged. On September 7 last year, Currie attacked the home of Paul Blackburn, the corporate controller of the drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline, which has links to HLS. The explosives were a crude mixture of sodium chlorate, a commonly available weedkiller, and sucrose, which combine to make a volatile explosive. While running from the scene Currie abandoned a second device in the garden of a nearby home, before being arrested by police. The laboratory and its suppliers have been the subject of a sustained campaign by animal rights activists opposed to their activities. The court heard Currie had been arrested on March 26 in Caversham, Reading, after trying to bomb a car belonging to the husband of Caroline Brooks, director of a courier firm that has worked for Britain's biggest testing laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). We consider his arrest and conviction to be a significant event." He will be sentenced on September 28.Ī senior source at Thames Valley police said later yesterday: "It is our belief that Currie was the main active bomber for the Animal Liberation Front. A man described as the Animal Liberation Front's top bomber is facing jail after admitting he carried out explosive attacks on the homes of a number of people with connections to a pharmaceutical research laboratory.ĭonald Currie, 40, pleaded guilty at Reading crown court to four charges of arson, one of attempted arson, and two counts of possessing explosives with the intent of carrying out further explosions.
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