Olympic Torch threat man given conditional discharge
A man who threatened to blow up his camper van to disrupt the Olympic Torch relay through Somerset has been given a conditional discharge.
Darren Cole, 40, of no fixed address, admitted making the threat in a phone call to The Sun newspaper on 20 May.
He told a reporter he intended to blow up his van in Taunton town centre before the relay, magistrates heard.
Cole was conditionally discharged for one year, on one count of making a threat to damage or destroy property.
His lawyer told an earlier hearing he never intended to go through with the threat.