Kenneth Robert Howorth
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Kenneth Robert Howorth, born 28 September 1932 in Littleborough, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, is famous for being killed by a bomb planted by the IRA.
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He served 23 years with the RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) with postings to Austria, Japan, Tripoli, Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong plus various UK bases. In 1973 he joined the Metropolitan Police as a civilian Explosives Officer. On 26 October 1981, he was killed whilst attempting to defuze a booby-trapped IED (Improvised Explosive Device) planted by the IRA (Irish Republican Army) in a Wimpy burger restaurant, Oxford Street, London. He was survived by his wife, Ann (who died 25 November 2003), son Steven and daughter Susan. In 1983, he was posthumously awarded the George Medal. In 1985, IRA active service members Paul Kavanagh and Thomas Quigley, both of Belfast, were convicted of his murder (along with other atrocities including the Chelsea Barracks nail bomb in September 1981). Despite being given several life sentences, they were released in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
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