A SCIENCE-MAD teenager, dubbed 'The Terrorist' by prison inmates, was jailed for five and a half years last week.

Gloucester Crown Court heard that Stuart Lee, aged 19, of School Road in Pillowell, was 'out of control' on mephedrone when he set off a makeshift nail bomb in a railway carriage and stole lethal potassium cyanide to build another explosive device.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC told Lee that the person he had put most at risk was himself and the boy he recruited to help him steal hazardous chemicals.

Lee pleaded guilty to the offences which included arson, possession of explosive materials, burglary and theft of hydrochloric acid and potassium cyanide, attempted robbery and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Judge Tabor sentenced Lee to two years in a young offenders institute for the explosives offences, three years for the attempted robbery and a six month sentence for perverting justice.

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