Neil Lennon ‘bomb’ plot trial: Accused learned how to make device watching A-Team

A MAN accused of planning to kill Celtic boss Neil Lennon said to police he had “been involved” in a hoax bomb sent to the Northern Irishman, a court was told today.

Neil McKenzie admitted telling somebody “on the phone” how to make a hoax bomb using a watch and a wire going into a block of putty, during a police interview which was played to a jury today.

In the interview, carried out on 12 May last year, he said he knew how to make it after seeing it on The A-Team on television.

But 42-year-old McKenzie, from Saltcoats, Ayrshire, said he did not have any involvement in the construction or sending of the item, and that he was only involved with one package, addressed to Lennon at Celtic Park.

The package was discovered by a Royal Mail worker at a postbox on Gladstone Road, Saltcoats, on 4 March.

At the High Court in Glasgow today, a recording of the interview, carried out by Detective Constable Andy McCarthy, was played to a jury at McKenzie’s trial.

McKenzie and his co-accused Trevor Muirhead, 43, from Kilwinning, Ayrshire, are alleged to have conspired to kill Lennon, former MSP Trish Godman, the late Paul McBride QC and various people at the premises of Cairde Na Heireann in Glasgow, by sending improvised explosive devices to them.

They deny all the charges against them.

McKenzie also told Det Con McCarthy that he believed it was “just a laugh” and said “it was our intention to put Ally McCoist’s name on the back”.