Convicted IRA bomber Shane Paul O'Doherty, who turned his back on the IRA was yesterday released from prison in the Northern Ireland after serving thirteen years of a life sentence.

Report shows archive footage of Reginald Maudling, British Home Secretary in the 1970s, who was a victim of Shane Paul O'Doherty's letter bomb campaign.

Newspaper headline on O'Doherty's request for a transfer to a Northern Ireland prison.

Photograph of Shane Paul O’Doherty.

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