Smyth’s defence solicitor said all the police evidence showed was that his client could be linked to a phone top-up on the day of the explosion.
That phone, police say, was the one used to call the Chinese delivery.
A detective inspector told the court a man, they believe to be Smyth, was seen on CCTV topping that phone up at a machine in a shop.
The PSNI officer said: “The very next transaction on that top-up machine is a £20 top-up of a Monzo bank account linked to Mr Smyth.”
The defence solicitor, arguing for some of the charges to be thrown out, said “all you can say is that he bought a top up at the Centra [shop] and that phone was later used to phone a Chinese”.
The judge said she “couldn’t separate out those charges” and she was “satisfied that the defendant could be linked to all the charges”.
No bail application was made and he was remanded into custody to appear again on 18 May.