Old Bailey bomber avoids new jail sentence for dissident offences

Old Bailey bomber Marian McGlinchey has avoided a return to jail after being handed a suspended sentence for dissident republican terror offences, one linked to the murder of two British soldiers.

McGlinchey, who was given a life term in 1973 for her part in the bomb attack on the London court, last year plead guilty to providing a mobile phone to the Real IRA gang that gunned down the soldiers outside Massereene Army barracks in Antrim in 2009 and, two years later, aiding and abetting a masked man who read out a Real IRA statement advocating violence against police officers.