4 March 2001 BBC bombing
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| 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing | |
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 BBC News coverage revealed the extent of the damage to the front of the building from the bomb. |
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| Location | Shepherd's Bush, London, United Kingdom |
| Target(s) | The BBC main news centre |
| Date | 4 March 2001
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| Attack Type | Car bomb |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Perpetrator(s) | Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme, Aiden Hulme, James McCormack and John Hannan |
On Sunday, 4th March, 2001 the Real IRA detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in the Shepherd's Bush area of West London at 0030GMT. Officers were carrying out a controlled explosion on the bomb with a bomb-disposal robot when it went off yards from the front door of BBC Television Centre. Staff had already been evacuated after police received a coded warning. A London Underground worker suffered deep cuts and some damage was caused to the front of the BBC building.
As the explosion happened just after midnight some reports of the incident say that it happened on the 3rd March when in fact it was the 4th March.
In November 2001, three men; Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme were arrested in connection with three bomb attacks in the U.K. The first being outside the BBC on 4th March 2001 the second in Ealing Broadway on 3rd August 2001 (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing) and the third in Birmingham on 3rd November 2001. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on the 8th April, 2003. Robert Hulme and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played "a major part in the bombing conspiracy", was sentenced to 22 years.
Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing. James McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, the judge said, was jailed for 22 years. John Hannan, who was 17 at the time of the incidents, was given 16 years detention.
[edit] See Also
- List of terrorist incidents (Worldwide)
- List of terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom
- List of London bombings
[edit] External links
- Report on the incident by the BBC
- Second report on the incident by the BBC
- Report on the Real IRA bombers being jailed
