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| Bangor bomb hoaxer jailed A man convicted of planting a series of hoax bombs in Bangor - which brought the city to a standstill - has been sentenced to four years by a judge at Caernarfon Crown Court. Daniel Plows pleaded guilty to three charges of placing hoax bombs and asked for a further four offences to be taken into consideration. The court was told that there were a series of seven hoaxes between 8 and 17 October last year, spread across the north Wales city's high street. Sentencing, Judge Elystan Morgan said 21-year-old Plows had showed no sympathy for the chaos caused to other people. "You revelled in the importance you felt," he said. "The threat gave you power and influence over an innocent community." The judge added that Plows' "cold-blooded malevolence defied definition" and said he would have carried on until arrested. The first incident reported that a bomb had exploded outside the police station and led to the station and the magistrates court being evacuated. In another incident, the entire high street was shut with estimated losses for local businesses of around £100,000. Plows had made the devices at the Ty Newydd probation hostel in Bangor, Gwynedd, where he was living at the time. He also caused an anthrax alert near Territorial Army offices by scattering white powder around a phone box in which he had left a package. Caernarfon Crown Court heard that on closer inspection, the powder turned out to be harmless. However, two days later an army bomb squad lance corporal was overcome by fumes as he examined a device left in public toilets in Bangor high street. Plows was eventually caught when police stopped him in a street in Bangor, and found two more hoax devices in his bag. Judge Morgan told him that he had created a climate of anxiety and disruption in the city. The judge also described the attacks as "a very deliberate campaign waged to paralyse a whole community". 21st January 2002 |
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