A dad made a bomb using gunpowder from fireworks and threatened to blow up his neighbours.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Alan Primus, 49, made the “improvised explosive device” using gunpowder from fireworks after a street feud
The court was told he was heard saying he would bomb his neighbours if they continued to annoy him.
Police were called and officers discovered a plastic container in his kitchen cupboard covered in black electrical tape and filled with gunpowder and “grey metallic nuggets”, Wales Online reports.
Prosecutor David Pugh said: “A woman told police he had complained about neighbours and threatened to use the improvised explosive device against them.
She said the bomb was in the kitchen cupboard and wrapped in black paper.”
Mr Pugh told the court the bomb had “the potential to cause injury to people and damage to property in close proximity”.
Primus pleaded guilty at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday to making an explosive substance.
But the court heard he claimed he had made the bomb out of “misguided curiosity” and never intended to use it.
In police interview he initially denied having any explosives in his house in Caerau, Cardiff, but later admitted making it five years before his arrest.
Mr Pugh said: “When asked why he had made the improvised explosive device he said he was ‘just bored’ and had an argument with his ex-wife.”
Judge David Wynn Morgan said Primus had been “remarkably stupid” to make the bomb but it was accepted he had made “idle threats” and never intended to use it.
He added: “This is not a terrorism case, it is an act of supreme folly.”
Primus, who has been held in prison for six months until his court hearing, was sentenced to a 12-month jail sentence suspended for 24 months.
He will be freed from jail – but was told to undertake a thinking skills activity.