'Chemistry set' lands man in jail

A CONVICTED thug who was caught with a “dangerous chemistry set” and a handbook on how to make explosive devices from various substances has been jailed.

- ROB KENNEDY

Andrew Tait had collected chemicals which could be used to make improvised explosive devices and also had other “items of concern” at his family home in Sunderland.

Police went to the address on Pennywell Road, on April 26 this year, where he lives with his partner and her child, after receiving intelligence that there may be explosives at the property.

After a search of the house and an outhouse, they found 11 chemicals which could be used in combination to make an explosive device, including a litre of hydrogen peroxide. They also found fireworks, including aerial shells with fuses that were for professional use only, a spent smoke grenade, spent ammunition cartridges, a 3D printer with 3D printed knuckle dusters and laboratory equipment.