The blood-stained terrorists told that they WON’T be prosecuted
1 NESSAN QUINLIVAN
Escaped from HMP Brixton in 1991 using a gun hidden in a shoe, and shot a passerby. He was awaiting trial over a suspected IRA assassination plot. Arrested in Ireland for firearms offences in 1993, Quinlivan was jailed for four years. He was freed in 1996 as part of the early release programme and successfully fought extradition attempts in 2000, arguing he would have been freed by July 2001 under terms of the Belfast Agreement.
2 DERMOT FINUCANE
While serving 1 years in the Maze prison for explosives offences, Finucane masterminded the 3 -man mass IRA breakout in 19 3 with his brother Seamus. Another brother Pat, a solicitor, was murdered in 19 9. He initially fled to the US with Kevin Artt. Arrested in Ireland, but beat extradition attempts and is thought to be in Dublin.
3 RITA O’HARE
Pictured here with Sinn Fein party president Gerry Adams, O’Hare was wanted in connection with attacks on British troops in the early 1 70s. Arrested in Northern Ireland in 1 72 for the attempted murder of a British Army officer in Belfast the previous year. Released on bail, she fled to Dublin. Irish High Court ruled in 1 78 she should not be extradited to the UK because her alleged offence was ‘political’. O’Hare is the co-treasurer of Sinn Fein.
4 LIAM AVERILL
Notoriously escaped from the Maze prison dressed as a woman in 1 7 while serving life for shooting dead two Protestants in 1 4. Arrested in 2014 for drink-driving in Londonderry, he was fined £30 after telling a judge that was all the cash he had. In 2000, while on the run, Averill was awarded £5,000 by the European Court of Human Rights because he was not given a lawyer for 24 hours after his arrest.
5 KEVIN ARTT
Convicted of the murder of Maze prison deputy governor Albert Miles, who was shot dead in front of his wife, Artt escaped in 1 83 during the mass IRA breakout. After fleeing to the US, he was caught by FBI agents in 1 2. Avoided extradition to the UK after the US ruled that his claims of unfair conviction in Northern Ireland must be investigated before sending him back.
6 JOHN DOWNEY
Escaped prosecution for the 1 82 Hyde Park bombing which left four Household Cavalry soldiers and seven horses dead because he was given a guarantee he was immune from prosecution. Now living freely in a waterfront cottage in Donegal.