Kurd bombers receive jail sentences

Title

Kurd bombers receive jail sentences

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

TX Date

16 Aug 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:03:34

Description

Legal affairs correspondent Tim Crook reports on an Old Bailey judge imposing jail terms totalling 42 years on 3 Kurdish men for petrol bomb attacks on Turkish targets in London in 11/93. Cafer Kovaycin and Hikmet Bozat were sentenced to 15 years and Zervet Ozen to 12 years. Judge Ann Goddard said the long-standing political conflict between Turkey and Kurdistan was not her concern - the danger to life and property in London were. 22-year-old London office worker Caroline Russell was seriously injured in one of the attacks. Includes interviews with relatives of the accused; Detective Inspector Kieron Sharp, City of London police.

Contributors

Tim Crook; Kieron Sharp

Keywords

Terrorism; Imprisonment; Trials; Turkey; Bombs; Sentencing; Old Bailey; Kurds; Cafer Kovaycin; Hikmet Bozat; Zervet Ozen; Caroline Russell

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