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Marian Price released from custody | Marian Price released from custody |
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The high-profile republican Marian McGlinchey, formerly Price, has been released after more than two years imprisonment in Northern Ireland. | The high-profile republican Marian McGlinchey, formerly Price, has been released after more than two years imprisonment in Northern Ireland. |
The convicted IRA bomber has been in custody since May 2011, when the former Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Paterson, revoked her licence. | |
She was moved from Hydebank Prison to a Belfast hospital on medical advice last June. | |
She was convicted of the Old Bailey bomb in 1973. | She was convicted of the Old Bailey bomb in 1973. |
Mr Paterson said he made the decision to send her back to prison in May 2011 because the threat she posed had "significantly increased". | |
The decision to release her on Thursday was taken by the Parole Commissioners. | The decision to release her on Thursday was taken by the Parole Commissioners. |
She is currently facing two sets of charges, that she allegedly provided a mobile telephone for a terrorist purpose on 8 March 2009, shortly before two soldiers were shot dead at Massereene barracks in Antrim and also that she aided and abetted a meeting in support of an illegal organisation on 25 April last year. | |
She was granted bail on those charges at the time but she was taken back to jail because Mr Paterson revoked her licence. | |
Her recent imprisonment was controversial and many campaigned for her release. | |
She was previously convicted along with her sister Dolours Price and and the Sinn Fein MLA, Gerry Kelly, for their part in the IRA car bomb attack on London's Old Bailey courts in 1973. | |
One man died and more than 200 people were injured in the bombing. | One man died and more than 200 people were injured in the bombing. |