Australia: Alleged Bathurst bomb maker charged with endangering someone’s life


A man accused of making bombs at a secret home laboratory near Bathurst has been charged with endangering someone’s life by negligently handling explosives.

Bathurst Local Court today heard Paul Stephen Lowry had been charged with more than a dozen further offences related to the discovery of an alleged explosives facility in the small village of Perthville in New South Wales.

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Source: ABC News


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