5 Irish Guilty in Hotel Bomb Case
A jury today convicted five Irish nationalists of plotting to blow up 16 British hotels with bombs timed to go off at the height of the 1985 summer tourist season.
Among those convicted was Patrick Magee, 35, of Belfast, who also was found guilty Tuesday of blowing up the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party’s annual conference in 1984. Today, the jury at London’s Old Bailey criminal court convicted the five defendants in connection with a foiled attempt to bomb four hotels in London and 12 hotels in coastal resorts last summer.
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