A MAN has been found guilty of being involved in a plot to send poisoned vodka bottles through the post as part of a campaign for Scottish independence.
Wayne Cook, 45, was today convicted after two-and-a-half hours of deliberations by a jury at Manchester Crown Court.
The unemployed father of three, of Tyldesley, was found guilty under anti-terror laws of two counts of using noxious substances or things to cause harm and intimidate.
He was one of two men who sent two miniature bottles of vodka filled with lethal concentrations of caustic soda to public figures as part of a campaign by the Scottish National Liberation Army to force the UK Government out of Scotland.
The other man, Steven Robinson, a Scot, pleaded guilty to the charges at an earlier hearing.
The two packages were sent to Blackburn with Darwen councillor John Wright and Scottish Daily Express journalist Myra Philp in April 2007.
The case was adjourned until tomorrow for sentencing.
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