(UKPA) – 4 days ago

Online retailer Amazon is facing pressure to stop selling copies of terrorist books downloaded by a teenage white supremacist whose racist father produced a chemical weapon.

Nicky Davison, 19, of Annfield Plain, County Durham, was sentenced to two years in a young offenders' institution on Friday after being convicted of charges relating to downloading copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook and The Poor Man's James Bond.

His father, Ian Davison, 42, was jailed for 10 years at Newcastle Crown Court after he manufactured enough ricin to kill nine people and kept it in a jar in his kitchen for two years.

The court heard that copies of the Anarchist Cookbook, which Davison Snr also possessed, are still on sale on Amazon.

A search of the website on Friday revealed nine new copies could be bought for £12.65 - reduced from £29.95 - while eight second-hand copies were also available. Eight new and seven used copies of The Poor Man's James Bond could also be bought.

Judge John Milford QC said any documents stored by Amazon should be destroyed and taken off the website.

Police later also called for their removal from the internet.

Speaking outside the court, Detective Superintendent Neil Malkin said: "This is a landmark case and will bring the attention of the authorities at a national level to the need to restrict these documents."

The detective said just downloading the Anarchist's Cookbook from the internet was an offence. "Clearly, Amazon needs to look at what happened today in this case and reflect on the availability of these manuals," he said.

Amazon said it would stop selling the books if it was found to be illegal but said it believed people had the right to choose their own reading material.

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