CHARGE AGAINST BOY
POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVES. PLACING OF BOMBS IN STORES PLANNED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 7. Brendan Beham. of Dublin, aged sixteen, charged at Liverpool with having been in possession of explosives, said: “I have no interest in the proceedings.” The remark was construed to be a plea of not guilty. He grinned during the hearing, once shouting: “That’s a lot of damned lies.”
The police evidence showed that the boy, in a statement, revealed he was sent over to replace arrested men to reorganise further operations in Liverpool. He intended to put bombs in big stores. Beham added that he had been recruited for the I.R.A. and trained to use explosives. He was sentenced to three years at a Borstal institution.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 6
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