Trial for Gay Pride ‘terrorist’

A teenager accused of plotting to carry out a terror attack on a gay pride event will stand trial in January next year. Ethan Stables, 19, allegedly stockpiled a machete, axe and three knives ahead of an LGBT event at the New Empire bar, in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 23 June. He also carried out reconnaissance of the venue, acquired a match head composition explosive and researched ingredients for an improvised explosive device, it is claimed. Stables is said to have…