Lawyers are to press the Attorney General to allow Lydney teenager Stuart Lee to face bomb making charges.
The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC, has said the 18-year-old should not be charged with stealing cyanide and acid to make a bomb.
But Gloucestershire's Crown Prosecution Service have asked him to reconsider.
Lee, 18, of West View Cottage, School Road, Pillowell, has admitted burglary at Whitecroft Essentials Ltd and theft of hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid and cyanide granules worth a total of £200.
He was due to be sentenced yesterday but prosecutor Julian Kesner said that when the Crown made the original application it was believed the quantity of cyanide was 50 grams, not 73 grams.
He said it was the Crown's case that he was capable of making an explosive device.
Mr Kesner said they also planned to charge Lee with arson relating to an incident in July when 'something which looked like a nail bomb' was found in the debris of a fire.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC demanded an update by today.