On 3 August 2001 the Real IRA detonated a car bomb containing 45kg of explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, England, injuring seven people. Debris caused by the bomb spread more than 200m (218 yards).^[1]

Apart from the damage caused directly by the explosion, further extensive damage to property in the adjacent Ealing Broadway shopping centre was caused by flooding arising from the water main under the car bomb being ruptured.

In November 2001, three men – Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme – were arrested in connection with three bomb attacks in the UK, the first being outside BBC Television Centre on 4 March 2001 (see 4 March 2001 BBC bombing); the second in Ealing Broadway on 3 August 2001; and the third in Birmingham on 3 November 2001.

They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April 2003. Robert and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for 20 years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played "a major part in the bombing conspiracy", was sentenced to 22 years.

Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing. McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, the judge said, was jailed for twenty-two years. John Hannan, who was seventeen at the time of the incidents, was given sixteen years detention.

Notes

External links

• Report on the incident by the BBC
• A second report on the incident by the BBC
• Report on the Real IRA bombers that caused the Ealing bombing being jailed by the BBC
• Report from the Scotsman on the real IRA bombers being convicted

See also

• Chronology of the Northern Ireland Troubles
• List of London bombings