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Brighton bomber Patrick Magee reveals he plotted attack against Labour party in 1977

Brighton Bomber Patrick Magee  has revealed he plotted an attack against Jim Callaghan s Labour party at their conference in the seaside town, before going on to kill five people in the 1984 blast during the Tory s event. Magee placed a bomb at the Grand Hotel on the Sussex seafront in a bid to kill Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative cabinet as part of an IRA attack. Five people died in the blast and 31 were injured. Magee was given eight life sentences but was released in 1999 after serving just 14 years in prison. He has now revealed how seven years before the Grand Hotel attack, he had scouted out the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 as the IRA plotted to hit back at the then-Labour Government over its Northern Ireland policies. 

IRA Brighton bomber scouted Labour conference seven years earlier

IRA Brighton bomber scouted Labour conference seven years earlier Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images The IRA bomber who almost wiped out Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative cabinet in 1984 secretly scouted a Labour party conference in Brighton seven years earlier, he has disclosed. Patrick Magee surveilled the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 when the IRA sought to hit back at the then Labour government for its policies in Northern Ireland. Magee, who was convicted of murdering five people in the 1984 bombing of the Grand hotel, said he was part of an IRA team that visited the seaside town in 1977 to potentially target Labour government figures.

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