LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A British man was sentenced to 11 years in prison Friday after admitting he assembled an arsenal of weapons in his home in a case the judge called "unique."
Terence Gavan appeared in the Old Bailey court in London to plead guilty to 22 counts, The Daily Telegraph reported. Gavan told the court he "had a fascination with things that go bang."
"Your case is unique," said the judge, Mr. Justice David Calvert-Smith. "There is no case in which such a long and persistent course of manufacture of both guns and explosives combined with possession of material likely to be useful to those who commit terrorist acts has ever been before a court before."
Gavan, a former soldier and lapsed member of the British National Party, shared a small house with his mother. His weapons collection, locked inside a small attic bedroom, was so large police took six days to examine it, the Yorkshire Post reported.
The arsenal included a booby-trapped cigarette pack, a samurai sword, grenades and guns.
