By The Telegraph. Two 15-year-old schoolboys were caught plotting to blow up the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace after one of their mothers discovered suspicious powder in her son's room. It turned out to be crushed paracetamol, caffeine and sucrose but she called police who unearthed a
Two 15-year-old schoolboys were caught plotting to blow up the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace after one of their mothers discovered suspicious powder in her son’s room.
It turned out to be crushed paracetamol, caffeine and sucrose but she called police who unearthed a plot to carry out atrocities and suicide attacks around the UK.
After the boy’s arrest police found a message on his phone sent to his friend saying: "Fam found something, deciding if to report me, I could get life or worse if they check everything else".
The youngsters had been buying chemicals, pipes and fuses online to make viable devices based on a recipe in the “Anarchists Cookbook”, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
In online conversations, they discussed going on a drug-fuelled rampage, killing families in their homes, making a beheading video and ending their days as wanted men.
They also referenced Lee Rigby, the soldier murdered by two Islamist fanatics and Raoul Moat, who shot himself in 2010 after going on a gun rampage in Northumbria.
A mobile phone seized from one of them was found to contain messages, chat and links relating to making explosives, Molotov cocktails, bottle bombs, nail bombs, acetone peroxide, the uses of chlorine and the Taliban. Other material showed references to a hatred of Jews and black people.
