Australian killings by IRA in Netherlands

Title

Australian killings by IRA in Netherlands

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

29 May 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:55

Description

Lindelle(?) Melrose, wife of murdered Australian Stephen Melrose, speaks for the first time about the moment an IRA gunman shot her husband. She saw her husband and his fellow Australian lawyer, Nick Spanos die in a hail of bullets on Sunday night in Roermond, Netherlands. Vicki Coss, the girlfriend of Nick Spanos, says that for the moment she has not made any plans. Throughout the half-hour press conference the Australian High Commissioner Doug McClelland supported the two young women. He joined in condemnation of the killings and reiterated the message given by the Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, that the Australian Government rejects the IRA’s apology. Margaret Shiels reports.

Contributors

Margaret Shiels; Vicki Coss; Doug McClelland; Lindelle(?) Melrose

Keywords

Australia; Deaths; Government; Terrorism; IRA; Homicide; Netherlands; Australian; Roermond; Stephen Melrose; Nicholas Spanos; Tourists

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