Viva Brighton October 2015 Issue #32

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All talk and no vote? You need to make sure that you’re on the updated electoral register, or you might not be able to vote in future. Register online now at www.gov.uk/ register-to-vote Electoral Services, <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove City Council Visit us at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/vote Email electors@brighton-hove.gov.uk or call 01273 291999
eported, ‘can be used to recover fingerprints from surfaces on which they are normally obscure’. This process apparently revealed prints belonging to Patrick Joseph Magee, who was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant over a postal-bombing campaign in 1979. But where was he? *** “The press were hounding us for briefings,” Hill says, and senior politicians showed “a very high level of interest” in what was going on. “It wasn’t pressure that we were feeling in the team; we just got on and did it.” But, of course, Sussex’s Chief Constable Roger Birch was under pressure. He was in a difficult position. Though they’d discovered the real identity of ‘Roy Walsh’ by January 1985, Birch couldn’t make this information public. “The feeling was that Magee wasn’t in this country, and therefore, the whole issue of trying to find him had to be handled very carefully,” Hill says. “Had he become aware that he’d become the main target, he had connections in other parts of the world, as far as I understand it, so he could have disappeared.” Keeping this secret was so important that normal PCs – even some of the people involved in the investigation – weren’t told about Magee. “There may well have been less than 100 people in the country who knew they were looking for him,” Parr says. “I’m just picking a number, but it would have been kept very, very close in the investigations team, surveillance and intelligence units.” Yet, somehow, a Daily Mail reporter found out. The paper planned a front-page story naming Magee, and contacted Sussex CID chief Jack Reece about it. ‘Jack was horrified’, the journalist later wrote. Reece had heard, from undercover sources, that IRA operatives including Magee would soon be coming back to Britain for another bombing campaign. The story would have been enough to spook Magee. The Mail pulled it. Magee came back. On June 22nd, 1985 – eight months after the bombing, and at least five months after the manhunt began – he was spotted at Carlisle station by undercover operatives. “I can remember a story about the surveillance officer quickly going to his partner, grabbing her, and faking a great big passionate kiss so he could look over her shoulder without being spotted,” says Simon Parr. “Surveillance officers will do all sorts of things to look normal.” Magee was followed back to a hideout in Glasgow. A team of armed detectives surrounded the place. When they knocked on the door, Magee answered. He and his fellow IRA operatives were caught with incriminating evidence about plans to bomb various resorts in South East England. “Although you’re allowed, I think, a degree of selfsatisfaction,” Hill says, “that very quickly turns to: ‘Right, now we’ve got the man, we’ve got to prove it, and get a conviction in court.’” Interviewed by police, Magee ‘never once replied or spoke to them,’ the Argus reported. He pleaded not guilty, but didn’t give evidence at the trial. He was convicted. Steve Ramsey With thanks to Simon Parr (who’s now Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire), Graham Hill (now working at Victim Support), Albert Mariner (now running Acorns Camping, based near Angmering), and Kieran Hughes, author of Terror Attack <strong>Brighton</strong>. Photo courtesy of Peter Chrisp ....35....
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