JURORS were expected to retire today to consider their verdict in the case of a Hampshire teenager accused of wrecking a car with a home made bomb.
Robert White is said to have planted the device on the offside wheel of a Vauxhall Vectra parked on a drive, which exploded and scattered shrapnel and debris about 100ft.
Southampton Crown Court has heard relations between the owner and White’s aunt and uncle, who lived next door, were not good.
The 19-year-old yesterday spent a further hour in the witness box, rebutting allegations from prosecutor Stephen Parish that he had put the pipe bomb under the passenger seat of a car in which he was driven to the scene. Mr Parish said: “You knew of the on-going problems with the neighbour,” to which the teenager replied: “It was petty stuff. It wasn’t major.”
Mr Parish then suggested: “You decided you were going to teach him a lesson and blow up his car.” White answered: “No I didn’t”.
White, of Truro Rise, Eastleigh, denies causing an explosion and endangering life or causing serious damage to property.
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