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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tristan Kirk and Jordan Reynolds

FOUND: Engineer jailed for blowing up ulez camera with homemade bomb - What They Never Told You

The device caused an explosion, captured on CCTV here, which damaged cars and property up to 100 metres away - (Counterterrorism Police)

An anti-Ulez activist who claimed he “didn’t actually do anything wrong” by exploding a camera with a homemade bomb has been jailed for 15 years.

Retired electrical appliances engineer Kevin Rees, 63, sparked a major police investigation when he detonated explosives in the Ulez camera in Willersley Avenue, Sidcup, south London, at about 6.45pm on 6 December, 2023.

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