Brighton Bomb Suspect in Court
United Press International
LONDON —
A defiant Irish Republican Army suspect, wearing only shorts and giving a clenched fist salute, appeared in court today on charges he killed five people in a Brighton hotel bomb blast last fall aimed at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Patrick Joseph Magee, a 34-year-old Belfast man, appeared with six other defendants, all of whom were suspects in a recently smashed IRA plot to plant bombs at 12 seaside resorts in England this summer. All were ordered held without bail on an assortment of terrorist charges.
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