FOUR people who plotted together to petrol bomb premises in Accrington, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage, as disturbances erupted in nearby Burnley last summer, are still awaiting sentence.
Nabil Saddique, Arfan Hussain, Mohammed Amin, all 17 and Rajib Ali, 22, were due to be told their fate yesterday at Burnley Crown Court, but a judge adjourned the case for psychiatric reports.
Judge Raymond Bennett said if the case ever went to the Court of Appeal, the higher court would want to see such reports.
Saddique and Amin, both of Steiner Street, and Hussain, of Tremellian Street, all Accrington, were all bailed until July 19, with conditions of residence and curfews, after they had earlier admitted conspiracy to commit arson.
Ali, of Empress Street, Accrington, who had denied the allegation, was convicted after a trial and was remanded in custody until the same date.
Timothy Brennand, prosecuting, told the court the defendants agreed between them to make petrol bombs and use them in Accrington.
Creates of milk bottles were taken to a park and the bombs were made using petrol and sugar, with pieces of material as wicks.
There had been rumours the National Front was coming to Accrington and various witnesses in the town got in touch with the police because they were suspicious about things they had seen.
Mr Brennand said the first target to be fire bombed was a car in Gloucester Avenue, and then Central Car Sales was also hit. Next was the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School in Bradshaw Lane, which, could have been the most devastating of the attacks that night.
A window of a classroom had been smashed and a bomb, which had on it Ali''s fingerprints, was slung in.
The final premises to be fired was the Glynn Webb stores and Saddique's prints were discovered on an Asda bag found behind the store.
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