Bomb plotters convicted
NZPA-Reuter London A British court has convicted Northern Irishman, Patrick Magee, and four other people of plotting to launch a bombing campaign last year in London and a dozen coastal resorts.
The prosecuting lawyer, Mr Roy Amlot, said the plot, if successful, would have resulted in “carnage too great to contemplate.” The 35-year-old Magee was found guilty on Wednesday of murdering five people and trying to blow up the Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, and her Cabinet during the Conservative Party’s conference at Brighton in October, 1984.
The four others convicted yesterday were
Gerard McDonnell, aged 34, Peter Sherry, aged 30, Martina Anderson, aged 23, and Ella O’Dwyer, aged 26. The Judge said he would not pass sentence on them for several days. Magee faces life imprisonment for the Brighton bombing. The prosecution said the five had planned to plant bombs in hotels in 12 of Britain’s most crowded seaside towns at the height of the holiday season. A bomb was defused in a popular hotel close to Buckingham Palace, residence of the Queen.
The defendants were arrested in May, last year, in a police raid on an Irish Republican Army safe house in Glasgow.
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