A man has been charged after a suspicious package was sent to a factory producing coronavirus vaccines.
The bomb scare forced the Wrexham plant to be partially evacuated on Wednesday January 27.
Anthony Collins was arrested the next morning following a raid on his Chatham home.
Kent Police said the 53-year-old has since been charged with dispatching an article by post with the intention of inducing the belief it is likely to explode or ignite.
Production was suspended at the Wockhardt factory on the Wrexham Industrial Estate following the package discovery.
An army bomb squad was called to the site, where Covid Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines are being manufactured.
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A police spokesman revealed that the item ‘was not a viable device’, meaning it would not have been able to explode.
Wockhardt has a contract to produce 300 million doses of the Oxford vaccine which is currently being rolled out across the UK.
In a statement on Wednesday, they said the production schedule had not been affected and staff returned to work after shortly after the evacuation.
Collins has been remanded in custody to attend Medway Magistrates’ Court today.
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