Five years for driver
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LORRY driver Adam Kyle was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, last week, for having explosives an his vehicle when he was about to board a ferry for Northern Ireland.
Kyle (33), of Station Road, Shotts, Lanarkshire, had entered a special defence plea, at Dumfries Sheriff Court, that he was carrying the explosives because of threats by Loyalist extremists against the woman he was living with.
Police were said to have found the explosives in a box on the wooden tool tray at the back of the tractive unit of his articulated lorry when it was searched at Cairnryan ferry terminal on April 4.
The charge alleged that Kyle was in possession of explosives, with intent to endanger life, or, alternativ( in suspicious circumstances The jury found him guilt) having explosives in sus cious circumstances.
Not Guilty
But they found Kyle r guilty of having explosil with intent to endanger life.
And, on the direction of 1 judge, Lord Kincraig, tl found him not guilty of havi explosives in the yard of Jar Hunter and Sons, haul contractors, Kitchener Str€ Wishaw, where he had worl for about a year, Lord Kincraig told K) "You may consider your5 fortunate that the jury lu found you not guilty on first alternative."