A 'lonely and bored' man who was 'obsessed' with coronavirus has been jailed for sparking a bomb scare at a vaccine factory in North Wales.
Anthony Collins sent a suspicious package to a factory producing the life-saving Oxford/AstraZeneca jab in January this year, a court heard.
A bomb squad was dispatched to the site in Wrexham, where 120 people were working, and the building had to be evacuated, halting production of the vaccine. READ MORE: The new government advice on when to take rapid Covid-19 test in run up to Christmas After the package was detonated, it was found to contain a calculator, a garden glove, four batteries, a “yellow biohazard bar”, a service wipe and a quantity of paper, Maidstone Crown Court heard.