Overview
- Officers responded shortly after 1:15pm on Friday to a report of suspicious activity at a Meadow Road address in Monkseaton.
- Police found a number of suspicious items at the property, prompting attendance by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
- Forensic officers conducted further examinations at the scene over the weekend.
- The suspect, a secondary-school-aged white British boy from the Whitley Bay area, has been charged with possession of an explosive substance and is due in court on Monday.
- Northumbria Police asked people not to speculate and appealed for information quoting reference NP-20251010-0555.