A SELF STYLED leader of the Scottish National Liberation Army has been remanded in custody on charges of having diary devices addressed to the British Labour Party leader, Mr Tony Blair, and the Shadow Scottish Secretary, Mr George Robertson.
Mr Adam Busby (47), from Paisley, Scotland, with an address at Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, was remanded in custody until October 8th by the Special Criminal Court yesterday.
Mr Busby, originally charged last month, faces 10 charges, including having incendiary devices and sending menacing messages to the media in Scotland.
The charges allege that between January 1st, 1995, and March 10th, 1995, he had improvised incendiary devices in envelopes addressed to Mr Blair, to the Labour Party headquarters at Walworth Road, London, and to Mr Robertson in Inverness, intending to use the devices to damage property.
He is also charged with having an explosive substance in envelopes addressed to Mr Blair, the Labour Party and Mr Robertson.
The envelopes were addressed to Mr Blair at his home in Co Durham and to Mr Robertson, c/o Director, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness.
Mr Busby was also charged with sending "a message of a menacing character" to the Press Association in Glasgow, to the Aberdeen Journal, the Daily Record in Glasgow and to the Glasgow Herald on January 5th, 1995. The court refused Mr Busby bail last week after hearing that gardai believed he would abscond.
Yesterday, his solicitor, Mr Michael Staines, said they would be seeking an early trial when the case is mentioned again in October.
Mr Busby successfully fought an attempt for his extradition to Scotland in 1984 after the High Court in Dublin ruled that he was wanted for "political offences".
He has been living in Dublin since then and has claimed in a series of interviews that he is the leader of the Scottish National Liberation Army.