British Army chef jailed for stockpiling homemade cannon, crossbows and explosives in bid to advance far-right terror
Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. Broadhurst was jailed for three years and 10 months at Sheffield Crown Court after police found a homemade cannon among a cache of knives, crossbows, rifles and explosives at his…Mark Broadhurst (right), whom Mr Justice Hilliard ruled had stockpiled weapons partly to make his threats of serious violence be taken seriously by the far-right group he wanted to advance.
Mark Broadhurst, a serving British Army chef, has been jailed for three years and 10 months at Sheffield Crown Court after police found a homemade cannon — wood and a pipe bound with duct tape — among a cache of knives, crossbows, rifles, air pistols, 9mm ammunition and black powder at his Chesterfield home.
James Dunkerley said Broadhurst was 'proactively ordering components to make explosives' while amassing multiple weapons including firearms.
Online, he was 'engaging in extensive conversations' with others holding similar extreme right-wing views, police said.
Sentence 'reflects his mindset and the danger he posed', said Dunkerley; Broadhurst also faces a 10-year notification order.
