West Ham station attack
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The West Ham station attack was a bombing and shooting attack at
Perpetrator
Adrian Vincent Donnelly, 36 at the time, was originally from Castlefin, County Donegal, in the Republic of Ireland but lived in London from 1971.[citation needed] He was part of an active service unit involved in planting 16 bombs. In 1977 at the Old Bailey, he was convicted of murder and attempted murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by Mr Justice Croom-Johnson with a minimum of 30 years.[6] He was released after 21 years in August 1998 as one of the earliest beneficiaries of the Good Friday Agreement's prisoner release scheme.[7] He died on 25 August 2019.[8]
Aftermath
Eleven days prior, an IRA bomb
An appeal to raise money was launched for the family of the driver of the train, Julius Stephen, who left behind a widow and a family. £17,000 had been raised by August 1976.[12]
See also
- Cannon Street train bombing
- 1976 Olympia bombing
- Bombings of King's Cross and Euston stations
- Bombings of Paddington and Victoria stations
- Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969–1997
References
- ^ Murders of London: In the Steps of the Capital's Killers by David Long, 2012, p. 36.
- ^ "The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah on March 17, 1976 · Page 4". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "1976: Tube driver shot dead". BBC On This Day. 2008. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- ^ "The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, on March 17, 1976 · Page 18". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ISBN 9781445656472.
- ^ "Adrian Vincent Donnelly jail sentence". Black Kalendar. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- ^ "BBC News | Latest News | The freed prisoners". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ "'He died happy things had changed' - brother of IRA's Tube bomber". independent. 29 August 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ "Terrorist Attacks on the London Underground". www.nickcooper.org.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Borrell, Clive (18 March 1976). "Armed police to travel on Tube". The Times. No. 59656. p. 2. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ISBN 9781473878990.