20-year jail sentence
NZPA-Reuter White Plains, New York A former radical leader. Kathy Boudin, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for taking part in the bloody 1981 Brinks armoured car robbery in New York and she has publicly apologised to the families of the three men killed in the raid.
“I feel your pain,” said the former Weather Underground leader, aged 40, and
longtime fugitive, referring to the families of the two policemen and the Brinks guard killed in the foiled $1.6 million robbery in Nanuet, New York.
Judge David Ritter, of the Westchester County Court, sentenced her to 20 years to life. She will be eligible for parole in 2001. Boudin said that her revolutionary ideals gave her the strength to face a long prison term, but her lawyer, Leonard Greenglass, said
the sentence “was too extreme. She never harmed anyone.” Boudin was part of a gang of white and black radicals who staged the robbery to fund their goal of establishing a black separatist republic in the southern United States.
Her role was to help transfer money from the Brinks van to a getaway car. Five others in the case were tried separately and given longer jail terms.
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