BOMB IN POLICE STATION
SEVEN YEARS’ SENTENCE
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(Received dune 20, 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 19
Richard Orinerod, 31, of Lancashire, was sent to prison for seven years’ penal servitude, at the Liverpool Assizes. He pleaded guilty to causing a Mills bomb explosion at the Lancastei Police Station. The police gave evidence that when Grmerod was taken to the station, charged with housebreaking, he suddenly raised his arm and shouted, “Stand back!” Two police immediately tackled him, and the bomb exploded, smashing the windows and injuring all thrge men.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 8
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