Hugh Doherty (Irish republican)

Hugh Aodh Doherty
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Gorbals District, Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation	Artist
Known for	Balcombe Street Siege
Criminal status	Released^[1]under terms of the Belfast Agreement
Parent(s)	Dan Doherty, Madge Doherty

Criminal charge	11 x Murder + 7 charges
Penalty	11 terms of life imprisonment (30 years judicial recommendation)^[1]
Details
Date	6 to 12 December 1975
Country	England, United Kingdom
State(s)	London
Location(s)	HM Prison Wandsworth HM Prison Leicester HM Prison Belmarsh Portlaoise Prison

Hugh Aodh Doherty is a Scottish-born Irish republican, who was a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), known for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege, in London in December 1975.^[1]

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Criminal background

Doherty is known for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege of December 1975, at the resolution of which he was sentenced to eleven terms of life imprisonment for offences including murder, with a judicial recommendation he serve at least 30 years.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Doherty and fellow members of his active service unit had targeted tourist attractions, soldiers, police officers, politicians and other establishment figures as part of the IRA's armed campaign against Northern Ireland being a part of the United Kingdom.^[5]^[6]

The Balcombe Street gang, who were named after the London street on which they were arrested after a six-day siege that was broadcast live on television and watched by millions, were responsible for a 14-month campaign of bombings and shootings across the south-east of England.^[7]

Trial

At his trial at the Old Bailey in 1977 Doherty received eleven life sentences and seven other sentences ranging eighteen to twenty-one years imprisonment.^[8] In 1987, Jeremy Corbyn handed a petition to then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher which demanded better visiting conditions for Doherty and his fellow IRA prisoner Nat Vella, along with "the immediate transfer of Irish political prisoners to prisons near their homes".^[7] In May 1998 he was transferred from England to Portlaoise Prison in County Laois in Ireland.^[9]

Doherty following his transfer made an appearance at the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis at which the party accepted the Belfast Agreement, under these terms Doherty was released from prison, on 9th April 1999.^[2]^[1]

Personal details

Doherty was born in the Gorbals Region in Glasgow, Scotland in 1950,^[10] He has been painting since 1982, primarily he started with landscapes and seascapes and now works as a professional artist in Ireland.^[11] He is the brother of Sinn Féin MP and MLA Pat Doherty.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "HUGH DOHERTY: REPUBLICAN EX-PRISONER AND VETERAN OF THE BELCOMMBE STREET SIEGE".
^ ^a ^b "Balcombe Street gang's reign of terror". BBC News. 9 April 1999. Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
^ "1975: Balcombe Street siege ends". BBC News. 12 December 1975. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
^ 2010: Hugh Launches New Website displaying his Art Archived 28 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine Click To Visit
^ Moysey, Stephen P. (2015). The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London. CreateSpace. p. 255. ISBN 978-1523284771.
^ "Files reveal 1970s IRA 'targets'". BBC. 28 October 2009. Archived from the original on 21 July 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Exclusive: MI5 opened file on Jeremy Corbyn amid concerns over his IRA links". The Telegraph. 19 May 2017. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
^ O'Donnell, Ruán (2012). Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons Vol.1: 1968-78. Irish Academic Press. pp. 458–459. ISBN 978-0-7165-3142-5.
^ "High-profile prisoners at ardfheis". Irish Times. 11 May 1998. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ Dooley, Brian (4 October 2004). "Your name could put you in jail". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 5 April 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
^ "Ruth Dudley Edwards". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
^ "Balcombe Street gang to be freed". BBC News. 9 April 1999. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2007.

Provisional Irish Republican Army

General

Organisation

Actions

1970–1979	Battle of St Matthew's Falls Curfew 1970 Crossmaglen bombing Scottish soldiers' killings Red Lion bombing Balmoral showroom bombing Abercorn bombing Donegall Street bombing Battle at Springmartin Battle of Lenadoon Bloody Friday Claudy bombing Newry customs bombing Old Bailey bombing Honey Trap killings King's Cross & Euston bombings Coleraine bombings 1973 Westminster bombing M62 bombing Clogher attack Houses of Parliament bombing Tower of London bombing Guildford pub bombings Harrow School bombing Brooks's Club bombing Woolwich pub bombing British Airways bombing attempt Birmingham pub bombings London pillar box bombings Talbot Arms bombing Bristol bombing Telephone exchange bombings 1974 Oxford Street bombing Carlton Tower & Portman Hotel shootings Mountainview attack Bayardo Bar attack Forkhill attack Caterham Arms bombing Tullyvallen massacre London Hilton bombing Piccadilly bombing Trattoria Fiore bombing Scott's Oyster Bar bombing Walton's Restaurant bombing Drummuckavall ambush Balcombe Street siege Kingsmill massacre Cannon Street train bombing West Ham station attack Olympia bombing Store bar shooting Stag Inn attack Garryhinch ambush Jonesborough Gazelle downing La Mon restaurant bombing Crossmaglen ambush Warrenpoint ambush Brussels bombing Dungannon attack
1980–1989	Dunmurry train bombing Lough Foyle attacks Glasdrumman ambush 1981 Bessbrook attack Chelsea Barracks bombing Hyde Park & Regent's Park bombings Harrods bombing Royal Artillery Barracks bombing Brighton hotel bombing Ballygawley land mine attack Newry mortar attack Ballygawley attack Enniskillen mortar attack RUC Birches barracks attack Rheindahlen bombing Loughgall ambush Operation Flavius Corporals killings Lisburn bombing Aughanduff Lynx shootdown 1988 Netherlands attacks Glamorgan barracks bombing Inglis Barracks bombing Ballygawley bus bombing Jonesborough ambush Clive Barracks bombing Deal barracks bombing Mayobridge attack Derryard attack
1990–1991	Derrygorry Gazelle downing South Armagh sniper Downpatrick roadside bomb Operation Conservation Carlton Club bombing 1990 Eltham bombing 1990 Wembley bombing Honourable Artillery Company bombing Lichfield gun attack RFA Fort Victoria bombing Proxy bombings Downing Street mortar attack Paddington & Victoria station bombings Mullacreevie ambush Glenanne barracks bombing Coagh ambush Musgrave Park Hospital bombing Crumlin Road Prison bombing
1992–1997	Teebane bombing Clonoe ambush London Bridge bombing Staples Cnr bombing Baltic Exchange bombing Sussex Arms bombing Cloghoge attack Coalisland riots Forensic Science Laboratory bombing Stoke Newington Road bomb 1992 Manchester bombing Night of the Long Knives 1993 Harrods bombing Warrington bombings Cullaville occupation Camden bombing Bishopsgate bombing Finchley Road bombings Battle of Newry Road Shankill Road bombing 1993 Fivemiletown ambush Heathrow attacks Crossmaglen Lynx downing Drumcree conflict Docklands bombing Aldwych bus bombing 1996 Manchester bombing Hammersmith Bridge bombing Osnabrück mortar attack Thiepval barracks bombing Coalisland attack 1997 Northern Ireland riots

Personalities
(Volunteers)

Espionage and
Supergrasses

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Martin McGartland
Sean O'Callaghan
Freddie Scappaticci (allegedly "Stakeknife")

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killings

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