First pictures released of neo-Nazi father and son guilty over poison attacks plot

Hate mob leader Ian Davison, 41, planned to use the deadly poison ricin and recruited hundreds of followers to his Nazi Aryan Strike Force.

His son Nicky, 19, had set up a computer network of white supremacist extremists around the world.

Members of the group planned to fight against what they called the Zionist Occupied Government and believed the state had been taken over by Jews.

A Durham Police raid at the Davisons' home in Grampian Way, Annfield Plain, County Durham, found copies of paramilitary manuals The Poor Man's James Bond and the Anarchist's Cookbook on two computers.

Davison Jnr, a former milkman's assistant, denied any knowledge of the documents and claimed a "mischievous" friend downloaded them.

But he was convicted on Friday by a Newcastle Crown Court jury of three counts of possessing information useful in committing or preparing terror acts.

Former pub disc jockey Davison Snr previously admitted six charges, including producing deadly ricin, one of the world's most dangerous substances.

They will be sentenced at Newcastle Crown Court on May 14.

The racist gang was fully intending to use the deadly ricin, said the officer leading the investigation, Det Supt Neil Malkin.

"I have no understanding of their intended target," he said.

"What I do know is the nature of the organisation and what it had pulled together in terms of the ricin, pipe bombs and the manuals can only give me concerns that the next step was to take it to the streets."

He said the deadly substance was found in a sealed jar and was in a usable state.

It has now been taken to the UK's chemical weapons centre at Porton Down.