Unionist militant gets 16-year term
Northern Irish paramilitary killer Michael Stone was sentenced to 16 years in prison for trying to kill Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and storming into Belfast’s parliament building with homemade explosives.
Stone, who supports British rule and made a fatal attack on an Irish Republican Army funeral nearly 20 years ago, entered the Stormont building in November 2006 armed with nail bombs, a hatchet, knives and an imitation gun.
He threw a bomb containing a gas canister, but it failed to explode. Stone told police he had intended to kill Adams and Martin McGuinness, who was Sinn Fein chief negotiator and is now deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive.
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