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Spree killer Harry Street pleads guilty to making bomb | Spree killer Harry Street pleads guilty to making bomb |
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A mass killer who shot five people dead in 1978 has admitted possessing firearms and making an improvised explosive device. | A mass killer who shot five people dead in 1978 has admitted possessing firearms and making an improvised explosive device. |
Ex-Broadmoor patient Harry Street, 70, was caught with the bomb, as well as 50 homemade bullets, a revolver and two pistols at his Birmingham home in 2013. | Ex-Broadmoor patient Harry Street, 70, was caught with the bomb, as well as 50 homemade bullets, a revolver and two pistols at his Birmingham home in 2013. |
Street, who was freed from detention in the mid-90s, pleaded guilty ahead of a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. | Street, who was freed from detention in the mid-90s, pleaded guilty ahead of a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. |
In 1978 he shot three neighbours and a couple who ran a filling station. | In 1978 he shot three neighbours and a couple who ran a filling station. |
'Diminished responsibility' | |
George Burkitt and his wife Iris were shot in the head at the family's home in West Bromwich while their son Philip was shot in the heart. | |
Later he drove to Stockingford, near Nuneaton, where he killed Michel and Lisa Di Maria, an Italian-born couple who ran a petrol station. | |
Street, originally called Barry Williams, pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his victims on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was detained under mental health laws. | |
On Monday, Street, of Hazelville Road, Hall Green, admitted possessing the explosive device, and the prosecutors accepted his not guilty pleas to four other charges. | |
He had already pleaded guilty at previous hearings to three charges of possessing a prohibited firearm and a count of putting a neighbour in fear of violence between 2009 and 2013. | He had already pleaded guilty at previous hearings to three charges of possessing a prohibited firearm and a count of putting a neighbour in fear of violence between 2009 and 2013. |