Miner ambushed
NZPA London A working miner was catapulted from his motorcycle by a cable stretched at neck height across a public road, the police announced.
He was returning home from work when he ran into the cable at Renishaw, near Chesterfield and was badly shaken but otherwise
unhurt. Detective Chief Inspector Sandy McGillvray, of the Chesterfield police, said of the incident, that if it was a development in Britain’s coal dispute, it was appalling.
“It is an old wartime tactic designed to maim or seriously injure, and it must be stopped before someone is killed.”
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Press, 30 August 1984, Page 11
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