UK: Glasgow man caught with three explosive devices under seat of car while out driving

A man who was caught with three improvised explosive devices under the driver’s seat of his car when police stopped the vehicle in Glasgow’s east end has been jailed for 40 months.

James Curran claimed that he had drawn inspiration from a character in an apocalyptic novel when he made the IEDs using fireworks, nails and ball bearings. A judge told Curran, 58, at the High Court in Edinburgh: “You maintain you had no intention of exploding them or harming any person.”