BOMB 1 A BIZARRE BIRTHDAY CARD WITH

BOMB 1

A BIZARRE BIRTHDAY CARD WITH PICTURES OF STICKS OF DYNAMITE

WAS SENT TO THE IRISHMAN ALLEGED TO HAVE BLOWN UP THE TORY PARTY

CONFERENCE HOTEL IN BRIGHTON, A COURT HEARD YESTERDAY (FRI)

THE MESSAGE INSIDE THE CARD READ: ‘TO THE SUCCESSFUL

FULFILLMENT OF ALL YOUR VARIOUS FACULTIES IN THE FUTURE.

‘

IT WAS SIGNED ‘JEAN’ AND IT WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO

PATRICK MAGEE, ON HIS 34TH BIRTHDAY ON MAY 29 LAST YEAR

AN OLD BAILEY JUDGE WAS TOLD THAT THE CARD WAS FOUND BY

STRATHCLYDE POLICE IN JUNE LAST YEAR WHEN THEY RAIDED A FLAT IN

GLASGOW.

INSIDE WAS MAGEE AND OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS ALLEGED TERRORIST

CELL.

MAGEE, FROM BELFAST, DENIES MURDERING THE FIVE VICTIMS OF

THE BRIGHTON BOMB IN OCT 1984.

IN THE DOCK WITH HIM ARE GERALD

MCDONNEL, 34, PETER SHERRY, 30, MARTINA ANDERSON, 23, AND ELLA

O’DWYER, 26.

THEY AND MAGEE ALL DENY UNLAWFULLY AND MALICIOUSLY

PLOTTING TO CAUSE EXPLOSIONS LAST YEAR.

DET.

CON.

WILLIAM DORRIAN TOLD THE JURY HOW HE STUMBLED ON

WHAT THE PROSECUTION CALLED: ‘ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND DEADLY

COLLECTIONS OF TERRORIST EQUIPMENT EVER DISCOVERED IN THIS COUNTRY.

‘

HE HAD BEEN SENT TO SEARCH ONE OF MAGEE’S ALLEGED HIDEOUTS

IN JAMES GREY STREET, GLASGOW.

MORE

FROM JOE WOOD, OLD BAILEY,

BOMB 2

‘I WAS SENT TO COLLECT SOME ITEMS FROM THE DUSTBIN AREA,’

DET.

CON.

DORRIAN SAID.

HE NOTICED A CELLAR DOOR, JAMMED TIGHT WITH RUBBISH AND

PIECES OF WOOD.

‘I DECIDED TO SEARCH IT AND HAD TO BREAK DOWN THE

DOOR,’ HE CONTINUED.

INSIDE WERE A NUMBER OF DUSTBIN BAGS AND HOLDALLS.

‘THEY SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN THROWN THERE IN A HAPHAZARD WAY.

I REMOVED THEM FOR INVESTIGATION.

‘

THE BAGS REVEALED A HORRIFIC ARRAY OF ARMS AND BOMBS AND

BOMB MAKING EQUIPMENT, THE JURY HEARD.

THERE WERE 25 BUNDLES OF EXPLOSIVES, EACH MARKED WITH THEIR

APPROX.

WEIGHT.

ALSO FOUND WERE 35 TIMERS, DETONATORS, BATTERIES

AND BOOBY TRAPS.

THE SECRET HOARD ALSO CONTAINED A NUMBER OF FIREARMS AND

AMMUNITION, INCLUDING A BULGARIAN SEMI-AUTOMATIC RIFLE, A BELGIAN

AUTOMATIC RIFLE, A HANDGUN AND AMMUNITION.

POLICE ALSO FOUND MAPS, TECHNICAL MAGAZINES, TOURIST

BROCHURES AND MILITARY LITERATURE.

THE COURT HEARD THAT ONE MAP WAS OF HEREFORD AND ON THE BACK

WAS WRITTEN THE NAME OF AN ARMY CAMP IN THE AREA.

THERE WAS ALSO A

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT A MILITARY COMMANDER.

PIECES OF PAPER FOUND ALSO INDICATED THAT BRITAIN WAS ON THE

BRINK OF A HORRIFYING BOMB A DAY TERROR CAMPAIGN

TRIAL CONTINUES

ENDS

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