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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.
Chng Meng Joo and his two childhood friends killed two people during a robbery in November 1980. The killers immediately fled to Malaysia. The two accomplices were arrested and charged for the double murder; one was sentenced to death for murder while the other was given a life sentence for manslaughter and armed robbery.
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
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Searches of the woods in the park were undertaken, but no sign of Steppach was found. She remained a missing person for nearly three years before her body was discovered in a drainage pipe in Chalamont Park in May 2018, in the immediate vicinity of where her car had been found. She had been dead since the time her car was found three years prior.
Joe Doherty (born 20 January 1955) is an Irish former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who escaped during his 1981 trial for killing a member of the Special Air Service (SAS) in 1980.
Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
Ivor Bell, former IRA Chief of Staff, was arrested in March 2014. [48] Shortly afterwards, he was charged with aiding and abetting in her murder. [49] [50] In April, the PSNI arrested three people who were teenagers at the time of the kidnapping: a 56-year-old man and two women, aged 57 and 60. All were released without charge.