A legal litany

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A legal litany

July 12, 1989: Donna Maguire and Leonard Hardy arrested at Rosslare, Ireland. Charged with possession of bomb-making equipment.

July 14, 1989: Pat Murray, Donncha O'Kane and Pauline Drumm arrested in France. Charged with explosives offences.

September 1989: German courts issue extradition warrants for Pat Murray, Donncha O'Kane, Pauline Drumm and Donna Maguire. The catch-all warrants alleged involvement in almost every IRA operation in Germany over the previous year. Most serious charges related to a bomb attack in Hanover in which a British soldier was killed.

February 1990: Donna Maguire acquitted in Dublin.

June 1990: Donna Maguire arrested in Belgium. Charged with membership of illegal organisation and illegal possession of arms. All charges were later dropped.

November 1990: Donna Maguire extradited to Holland. Charged along with Gerry Harte, Sean Hick and Paul Hughes with killing two Australian tourists in Roermond in 1990.

July 1991: Donna Maguire and her co-accused acquitted in Roermond. Gerry Harte goes free; the others are held on extradition warrants from Germany.

October 1991: Donna Maguire extradited from Holland to Germany to join Sean Hick and Paul Hughes.

August 1992: Pat Murray, Donncha O'Kane and Pauline Drumm extradited from France to Germany. Shortly after, all charges relating to Hanover were dropped.

April 1993: Start of trial of Pat Murray, Donncha O'Kane and Pauline Drumm on charges related to bombing of Osnabruck British army barracks.

June 1994: Donna Maguire acquitted in Dusseldorf on charges of bombing a British army base near Hanover in May 1990 and of involvement in the killing of a British major in Dortmund in June 1990. Sean Hick and Paul Hughes go free.

June 1994: Donna Maguire goes on trial for Osnabruck bombing.

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