§ Mr. Michael Brownasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report full details of the crimes for which the prisoners now on hunger strike were convicted.
§ Mr. Humphrey AtkinsAll of the hunger strikers are serving sentences for more than one crime; one of them received sentences for six separate offences two of them for seven and one for 21.
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Offence Sentence Leo Paul Patrick Green … Murder of an RUC Inspector … … … … … Life imprisonment with a recommendation that he serve a minimum period of 25 years before release on licence. Attempted murder (3 counts) … … … … … Life imprisonment in each case. Wounding with intent (2 counts) … … … … Life imprisonment in each case. Possessing firearms and ammunition with intent … … Life imprisonment. Raymond Pius McCartney … Murder of Constable McNulty and Mr. Geoffrey Agate, Manager of Du Pont factory, Londonderry. Life imprisonment in each case with a recommendation that he should serve a minimum period of 25 years before release on licence. Belonging to a proscribed organisation … … … 5 years' imprisonment. (3 sentences to run concurrently.) Sean Majella McKenna … Attempted murder of two reserve constables … … … 25 years' imprisonment in each case. Possessing firearms and ammunition with intent (3counts) … 14 years' imprisonment in each case. Carrying firearms with intent (3 counts) … … … 14 years' imprisonment in each case. Carrying firearm in public place … … … … 10 years' imprisonment. Wounding with intent (2 counts) … … … … 18 years' imprisonment in each case. Possessing firearms and ammunition with intent … … 16 years' imprisonment. Causing explosion (2 counts) … … … … … 14 years' imprisonment in each case. Possessing explosive substance with intent (3counts) … 12 years' imprisonment in each case. False imprisonment … … … … … … 14 years' imprisonment. Possessing firearms with intent … … … … … 14 years' imprisonment. Conspiracy to intimidate … … … … … 10 years' imprisonment. Belonging to a proscribed organisation … … … 5 years' imprisonment. (21 sentences to run concurrently.) Thomas gerard McKearney … Murder of a postman who was a part-time member of the UDR. Life imprisonment with a recommendation that he serve a minimum period of 20 years before release on licence. Possessing firearms and ammunition with intent … … Life imprisonment. Assault occasioning actual bodily harm … … … 6 months' imprisonment. (3 sentences to run concurrently.) John Joseph Patrick Nixon … Robbery … … … … … … … … 12 years' imprisonment. Robbery … … … … … … … … 14 years' imprisonment. (2 sentences to run concurrently.) Thomas Bernard McFeeley … Attempted wounding with intent of a policeman … … 14 years' imprisonment. Using firearms to resist arrest … … … … … 14 years' imprisonment. Possessing firearm and ammunition with intent … … 12 years' imprisonment. Possessing firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances 10 years' imprisonment. (4 sentences to run concurrently.) Robbery (2 counts) … … … … … … 12 years' imprisonment. (2 sentences to run concurrently.) Charges 1–4 to run consecutively with 5–6. Brendan Hughes … … Handling stolen goods … … … … … … 30 months' imprisonment. Possessing explosive substances with intent … … … 15 years' imprisonment. Possessing firearms and ammunition with intent … … 12 years' imprisonment. (concurrent to present sentence.)