A Middlesbrough man has been jailed after pleading guilty to booby trapping his doorbell with a bomb.
Army experts were called after six Napalm bombs belonging to Phillip Prout were found in his house when it was compulsorily purchased.
The 47-year-old welder, of the Broadway in Grangetown, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to seven charges of possessing explosive materials in July last year.
Prout was jailed for two and a half years at jailed at Teesside Crown Court. He also admitted making petrol bombs.
The court heard how Prout, who was nicknamed Captain Napalm by his neighbours, collected combat magazines.
During a search of his former home in Burnsville Road, Middlesbrough, Army experts also discovered bomb-making chemicals such as gunpowder, potassium nitrate and liquid glycerine.
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