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Sir John May's final report looked at confessions made by four members of the Balcombe Street gang. In 1976 - a year before the Guildford Four were refused leave to appeal - the IRA's Balcombe.
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The Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street Unit) who carried out a bombing campaign in southern England in the mid-1970s. The majority of their attacks and attempted attacks took place in London and the rest in Surrey, Hampshire.
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But the Balcombe Street gang, an IRA unit cornered at a siege in west London after a long mainland bombing campaign, admitted the Guildford and Woolwich bombings after they were arrested in 1975.
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Balcombe Street siege. Coordinates: 51°31′23″N 0°09′44″W. Modern view of Balcombe Street, Marylebone. No. 22b, the building involved in the siege, is to the left. The Balcombe Street siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from 6 to 12 December 1975.
22b Street in Marylebone, famous for the siege involving gunmen from the IRA from the 6
The Balcombe Street gang, who were named after the London street on which they were arrested after a six-day siege that was broadcast live on television and watched by millions, were responsible for a 14-month campaign of bombings and shootings across the south-east of England.
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The discovery of the factory led police to identify four other suspects, who later became known as the Balcombe Street gang after they held a couple hostage in the Balcombe Street Siege in Marylebone. The London-based IRA active service unit had been responsible for a series of bombings and killings in England.
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The Balcombe Street Gang's reign came to an end in December 1975. Police on duty to counter their campaign, spotted the men opening fire at a Mayfair restaurant that had been bombed three weeks.
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Equally compelling was the 1977 trial of the so-called Balcombe Street gang, genuine IRA bombers who confessed in court to carrying out the bombings. They exonerated the Guildford Four.
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The collapse of the IRA's 1974-1975 ceasefire triggered a wave of bombings by the four men who became known as the "Balcombe Street Gang" - Martin O'Connell, Edward Butler, Harry Duggan and Hugh Doherty. They detonated their first 10 devices in five days and killed Ross McWhirter, the co-editor of the Guinness Book of Records, after he offered.
The Street Siege as seen on TV History News Express.co.uk
The Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street Unit) who carried out a bombing campaign in southern England in the mid-1970s. The majority of their attacks and attempted attacks took place in London and the rest in Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
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The Balcombe Street gang was caught by police on 12 December 1975 after a six-day siege on the London street which gave them their name. At their trial at the Old Bailey, the unit's members were.
Anorak News National Archives Releases Evidence Of IRA’s Street Gang In Pictures
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Anorak News National Archives Releases Evidence Of IRA’s Street Gang In Pictures
Balcombe Street Siege. opsdesk_admin99. December 6, 2022. On December 6, 1975, four members of the violent Provisional IRA burst into the apartment of middle-aged married couple John and Sheila Matthews at 22b Balcombe Street in London. The men were on the run from the Metropolitan Police and decided that they were cornered.
IRA files Buckingham Palace among Street gang’s target list BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
The IRA's Balcombe Street gang had their release from prison after 24 years approved by the Irish government last week. The four terrorists, handed multiple life sentences for a bombing campaign.
IRA files Buckingham Palace among Street gang’s target list BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
The Balcombe Street gang were in the end responsible, in a ferocious burst of IRA activity during five months in 1975, for fifteen murders. The no-warning attacks included the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings which together killed seven utterly innocent people.