Overview
- Kristopher Follos, 45, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions, conspiracy to steal and making explosive substances, and received an eight-year sentence with a three-year extended licence.
- On May 12, 2025, he detonated a homemade device in the Hedgeley Service Station ATM at Powburn, but the blast failed to access the cash drawers.
- The machine contained about £14,862 and suffered roughly £4,800 in damage, yet no money was taken.
- CCTV showed two men in an Audi A3 on false plates inserting the device and lighting it with a cigarette lighter before taking cover during the explosion.
- Arrested in September, Follos admitted two similar failed attempts in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire; police and prosecutors called him an extreme danger under the Operation Sentinel crackdown.