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| Stoke Newington Road lorry bomb incident | |
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| Part of the Troubles | |
| Location | Shacklewell, London, United Kingdom |
| Date | 14 November 1992 1:00 am (UTC) |
Attack type | Shooting |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
On 14 November 1992, 3.2 tonnes of explosives was discovered during a routine check on a lorry travelling on Stoke Newington Road, part of the A10, one of the main routes between London and the north. The Volvo lorry was stopped by police around 1 am; the occupants fled. Constable Raymond Hall - a former Royal Engineer soldier and Falklands War veteran - chased the suspects to a residential street, Belgrade Road no.7 where he was shot twice by one of them.[1] Shortly afterwards police arrested one man, Irish lorry driver Patrick Kelly, a member of the Provisional IRA, who was alleged to have been driving the lorry.[2]
The large amount of explosives, which was bigger than that used in the Baltic Exchange bombing earlier that year, could have caused "massive destruction".[3] Investigations found detonation material inside the lorry as well.[4] Officers from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch were unable to determine the intended target, although it occurred on the day of the Lord Mayor's Show.
- ^ Tendler, Stewart (6 October 1993). "Policeman an inch from death". The Times. London.
- ^ "Bomb rips Northern Ireland town, London cache found".
- ^ "Man gets 25 years for IRA bomb plot: Judges tells court that terrorist". Independent.co.uk. 20 October 1993. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
- ^ Jones, Ian (31 October 2016). London: Bombed Blitzed and Blown Up: The British Capital Under Attack Since 1867. Frontline Books. ISBN 9781473879027 – via Google Books.
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