LETHAL instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails and firebombs have been published in shocking pamphlets including one called the Lancaster Bomber. The subversive material is the work of a Lancaster man currently facing conspiracy charges for inciting others to commit criminal damage through a newspaper called the Green Anarchist. Prosecuting council claim that Stephen Booth, 38, of Galgate, is one of the paper's editors. Booth, who describes himself as an eco-defender, is alleged to have published instructions of how to immobilise earth moving vehicles with monkey wrenches to halt road building projects.

Other publications entitled Do or Die and Without a Trace explain how to spike trees with metal nails to make them more difficult to chop down as well as describing how to manufacture stink bombs and grenades.

Prosecutor Richard Onslow told the court that activists swopped information via letter pages using code names like Dear Nora and Arnie the Arsonist.

He said the Lancaster Bomber magazine called for the end of all government because 'only sheep need leaders.'

The publications are also alleged to have included names and addresses of company offices and the homes of directors involved in road building and the nuclear power industry.

"There is all the advice you would need if you wanted to do that sort of thing. And it is very clear too," Mr Onslow emphasised.

Booth, along with four other men, is charged with conspiracy to incite persons unknown to commit criminal damage. The case at Portsmouth Crown Court is expected to last eight weeks.

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