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09/04/2003
Real IRA bombers jailed for up to 22 years
Five frontline members of a Real IRA cell have received sentences ranging from 16 to 22 years for plotting a bombing campaign in mainland Britain.
They aimed to endanger life and destroy property in busy British centres on Saturday nights during 2001.
At the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Gibbs told them: "They are abnormal crimes designed as threats to the country as a whole and must call for long sentences."
Their first attack was outside the BBC Television Centre, west London, in March, then in Ealing Broadway, west London, in August and finally in Smallbrook, Queensway, Birmingham, in November.
Robert Hulme, 23, described by the judge as one of the leading figures in the terror plot, was jailed for 20 years. His brother Aiden Hulme, 25, was also jailed for 20 years.
Noel Maguire, 34, played a major part in the bombing conspiracy, said the judge. He was sentenced to 22 years. All three had denied conspiring to cause explosions between January 1 and November 15, 2001.
Two other men, James McCormack, 35, from Co. Louth, and John Hannan, 19, from Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, had admitted the charge.
McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, was jailed for 22 years. Hannan was sentenced to 16 years detention. He was 17 at the time and is thought to be one of the youngest terrorists to appear before a British court.
The judge said it had been a mercy that no one had been killed in the terror campaign.
(Copyright 2002 Ananova Ltd)
They aimed to endanger life and destroy property in busy British centres on Saturday nights during 2001.
At the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Gibbs told them: "They are abnormal crimes designed as threats to the country as a whole and must call for long sentences."
Their first attack was outside the BBC Television Centre, west London, in March, then in Ealing Broadway, west London, in August and finally in Smallbrook, Queensway, Birmingham, in November.
Robert Hulme, 23, described by the judge as one of the leading figures in the terror plot, was jailed for 20 years. His brother Aiden Hulme, 25, was also jailed for 20 years.
Noel Maguire, 34, played a major part in the bombing conspiracy, said the judge. He was sentenced to 22 years. All three had denied conspiring to cause explosions between January 1 and November 15, 2001.
Two other men, James McCormack, 35, from Co. Louth, and John Hannan, 19, from Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, had admitted the charge.
McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, was jailed for 22 years. Hannan was sentenced to 16 years detention. He was 17 at the time and is thought to be one of the youngest terrorists to appear before a British court.
The judge said it had been a mercy that no one had been killed in the terror campaign.
(Copyright 2002 Ananova Ltd)
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