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Around 100 IRA and INLA members were then arrested in Derry on his evidence, of whom 35 were charged with terrorist offences. [14] In November, Gilmour's father was abducted by the IRA. He was held in secret in an unknown location for almost a year. [15] Gilmour was then sent to Cyprus and then Newcastle by the RUC.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) aimed to establish a united Ireland and end the British administration of Northern Ireland through the use of force. The organisation was the result of a 1969 split in the Irish Republican Army; [3] the other group, the Official IRA, ceased paramilitary activity in the 1970s. The IRA killed civilians ...
He bled to death. Ng and Koh escaped to Malaysia while Lim remained behind in Singapore, he was arrested. Koh later surrendered himself. Eventually, the two men were found guilty of murder, sentenced to death, and were hanged on 28 April 2006. Ng, who was last known to have escaped to Malaysia, remains missing and is still wanted for Bock's murder.
Guthrie pled guilty in 1996 to three bank robberies in Ohio, and to 16 more in seven states, as well as to weapons charges and credit card fraud. Following a plea agreement, he was to provide authorities with information about terrorist organizations similar to the Aryan Republican Army. [ 13 ]
Sixteen months after Cheok's disappearance, Ang was arrested as a suspect and charged with murder. In May 1965, Ang was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by a unanimous decision in one of Singapore's last jury trials before the local government abolished the jury system in 1970. Ang was hanged on 6 February 1967 after he lost his ...
On October 4, 1982, Annette Cooper, 18, and Todd Schultz, 19, both of Logan, Ohio, and who were engaged to one another, went missing. Their dismembered bodies were recovered two weeks later in the Hocking River and a cornfield in West Logan. Both had been shot before being dismembered. Cooper's stepfather, Dale Johnston, was arrested in 1983 ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
The three IRA members were all found afterwards to be unarmed. Keys to a hire car found in Farrell's handbag led the Spanish Police, who had closely worked with the British security services in Operation Flavius, to the discovery across the border in Spain of five packages totalling 84 kg of Semtex explosive in a car which the IRA team had ...