A far-right extremist is facing jail after pleading guilty to collecting explosive material and plans to make bombs from home.

Filip Golon Bednarczyk, 25, from Luton, Bedfordshire, was arrested by counter-terrorism police on the eve of the general election in December last year.

It came as a result of information that suggested he was interested in firearms attacks, had purchased chemicals and was involved in right-wing rhetoric.

When police raided his bedsit, they came across a number of materials, including bomb-making chemicals from eBay in his wardrobe, and two separate binders containing 240 pages of bomb-making instructions across 62 documents.

The last few pages in the binders contained methods to kill and hurt people, while a hand-drawn diagram showed the basic components of an IED with additional nails that could “increase the likelihood and severity of injury”, according to prosecution documents.

He was also found to have downloaded a copy online of the manifesto of the gunman who killed 51 people in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last year.

Search histories showed he had been scouring the internet for results on Nazis and Hitler as well as right-wing groups including the English Defence League (EDL) and Britain First.

Other searches included ’12 symptoms of a psychopath’, ’10 traits of a psychopath’, ‘sociopaths v psychopaths’ and ‘depression’.

Bednarczyk had also looked for ‘buying guns and drugs’, ‘serial killers’, and ‘assassinations and massacres’.

The 25-year-old pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one charge of possessing an explosive substance and seven charges of collecting information useful for terrorism during a video-link hearing at the Old Bailey.

Bednarczyk had previously been given a two-week suspended jail sentence in July 2016 after carrying a knife in public and possessing amphetamines.

He has a child in Poland for whom he has been paying maintenance. His mother lived in Britain until shortly before his arrest.

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