Bomber brothers jailed

Press, 12 July 1984, Page 19

Bomber brothers jailed

NZPA-AAP London Two brothers involved in sending letter bombs to establishment figures, including Prince Charles and the Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, were in jail on Monday, reported the “Daily Mail” newspaper in London. Patrick Smythe, aged 25, and his brother, Anthony, aged 27, were found guilty by an Old Bailey jury of making explosives. Patrick Smythe was also found guilty of sending the bombs between October, 1980, and March, 1983. None of the bombs exploded. The two brothers, who learned how to make the bombs from an American book on “do-it-yourself an-

archy,” went to be sentenced yesterday. The newspaper reported that the pair bought chemicals to make bombs from their dole money.

Having failed to interest the 1.R.A., the Russians, Cubans, Colonel Gaddafi’s Libyans, and the P.L.O. in supporting them with cash, explosives, and guns, they set about trying to buy their own weapons with soocial security money. Both travelled to the Continent, but the only weapon they could buy was a cheap tear-gas gun. The gun was found on Patrick Smythe when he was searched as he came off a ferry at Ramsgat£>on Patrick Smythe when he

was searched as he came off a ferry at Ramsgate last July, and soon afterwards the police searched his home in Westgate, Kent The police discovered a mountain of revolutionary documents, leaflets and books, batteries, light bulbs, chemicals, gunpowder from fireworks, wires, and match-heads used to produce letter bombs.