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Incarcerato per rapina il figlio di Brendan Hughes

Late IRA hunger striker’s son jailed

A son of the late IRA leader and hunger striker Brendan “Darkie” Hughes has been jailed for four years for a robbery at a Belfast filling station.

Tribunale - CourtBelfast Crown Court heard that Brendan Emmanuel Hughes, 35 and of no fixed abode, was part of a three-man gang who used a knife to hold up staff at the garage on the Crumlin Road on 13 April 2008 and stole money from the till.

Hughes pleaded guilty to the robbery offence and possession of an offensive weapon. He also admitted fraud charges involving the use of a stolen credit card.

His father who was one of the IRA’s leading strategists died two months before the robbery and a defence lawyer said his client had lived in the shadow of “the very important Republican figure in west Belfast”.

But he said that Hughes’s father had not been in his client’s life for a substantial number of years and there were unresolved issues between them.

He also said the defendant had spiralled into alcohol and drugs but was trying to turn his life around.

Hughes agreed to complete two years probation on his release from jail.

A co-accused Eamon Patrick Thomas Devlin, also of no fixed abode, who pleaded guilty to the filling station robbery was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment and agreed to complete one year’s probation.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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