Geek ‘could have hit neighbour’s houses with his homemade rocket launcher’

A science geek who set up an explosives factory in his mother garden could have hit his neighbours’ houses with a homemade rocket launcher, a court heard. Harry Whittaker, 33, is alleged to have made explosive substances in two sheds at the home in the Bedfordshire village of Caddington, near Luton. Prosecutor Emily Dummett earlier told jurors the case was all about items found at the defendant’s home, for the most part in his shed, but also in his bedroom…