A childhood obsession with Dick Smith electronics helped prevent a Mother of Satan London bombing style detonation in Australia, this nation’s first and most experienced female bomb disposal expert has revealed for the first time
Police Inspector Jodie Pearson was sitting at her desk in the police bomb squad room when in 2013 a bag was found in an estuary 150km south of Perth with 3kgs of white crystalline powder that resembled methamphetamine or sugar.
It was taken back to a police headquarters in Perth for storage and later routine drug analysis when officers made the horrifying discovery it wasn’t drugs but TATP – triacetone triperoxide also known as Mother of Satan and one of the most volatile explosives on the planet.
