A man who phoned the police and told them he had just planted two explosive devices - one of them outside the home of a councillor - has been jailed for two and a half years.
Not only did Keith McClenaghan (41) from Moss Park in Londonderry phone the PSNI, but he went to Strand Road Police Station, identified himself to officers, and told them: I wouldn t pick them up so I wouldn t.
Derry Crown Court heard McClenaghan admitted leaving the devices outside the front doors of independent republican councillor Gary Donnelly s home in the Creggan area and a friend of Mr Donnelly s in the Ballymagroarty area in the early hours of Easter Sunday on April 21, 2019.
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A man who planted a hoax bomb outside the home of a Londonderry councillor on Easter Sunday has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
Keith McClenaghan, 41, from Moss Park, Derry, admitted making explosives and planting two hoax devices between 7 and 21 April last year.
He also admitted two charges of communicating false information.
One of the devices was left at the home of local independent councillor Gary Donnelly on 21 April 2019.
The other device was left at outside a home in the Ballymagraorty area of Derry on the same date, Londonderry Crown Court was told on Friday.
Derry man jailed for planting hoax devices at homes of independent councillor Gary Donnelly and another man A remotely operated bomb disposal vehicle at Iniscarn Road in Derry where a suspect device was found at the home of independent councillor Gary Donnelly in April 2019. Picture by Joe Boland/PA Wire 11 December, 2020 15:35
Independent councillor Gary Donnelly
A Derry man who admitted planting hoax devices outside the homes of independent councillor Gary Donnelly and another man has been jailed.
Keith McClenaghan (41), of Moss Park, pleaded guilty to five charges including making explosives between April 7 and 21 2019, planting two hoax devices and two charges of communicating bomb hoaxes on April 21.