IRA shootings in Lichfield and Dortmund

Title

IRA shootings in Lichfield and Dortmund

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference; Vox pop; Speech

TX Date

2 Jun 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:02:38

Description

Simon Bowden reports on the shooting of three Army cadets at Lichfield railway station in Staffordshire. Detective Chief Superintendent Malcolm Bevington(?) (named elsewhere in the archive as Beverton(?)) on the shooting. Witness and taxi-driver Peter Irmer(?) describes the event. Three hours after the attack, Mayor Michael Dillion-Lee was also shot and killed in Dortmund, West Germany. An IRA link seems likely. Army spokeswoman not identified.

Contributors

Simon Bowden; Peter Irmer(?); Malcolm Beverton(?); Malcolm Bevington(?)

Keywords

Deaths; Crime; Terrorism; IRA; Railway stations; Germany; Army; Soldiers; Firearms; Staffordshire; Dortmund; Lichfield; Whittington Barracks; Robert Davies(?); Robert Parkin; Neil Evans; Michael Dillion-Lee

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