Terrorists gaoled in England

Press, 18 October 1976, Page 12

Terrorists gaoled in England

NZPA London British courts of law have imprisoned nine terrorists from Northern Ireland who carried the province’s sectarian feuding into London and other English cities. In London, four Protestant extremists have received sentences varying from 10 to 15 years for bombing a north-west London bar they alleged was used regularly by sympathisers of the mainly Roman Catholic Irish Republican army. In Birmingham, five members of the I.R.A. were each sent to prison for 10 years for waging a one-year bombing campaign in 1974 which left a trial of destruction across central England. The nine joined scores of other Protestant and Roman Catholic Irish extremists now in English prisons for terrorism, gun-running, or conspiracy since the Northern Ireland violence began in August, 1969. Nearly 60 people have been killed and more than 900 injured in English cities in terrorist bombings and shootings over the last four years.