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Pipe bomber cries in court after being found guilty of attack against East Belfast GAA

59-year-old Belfast man will be sentenced in December

A man has been found guilty of planting crude pipe bomb devices at ground used by East Belfast GAA.

John Wilson (59), of Lower Braniel Road, had denied possession of explosives in suspicious circumstances.

He also denied three further offences of attempting to intimidate members of the club “unlawfully by force, threats, or menaces” from attending or playing sports at Henry Jones Playing Fields in east Belfast.

After almost four hours of deliberations, the jury on Friday returned to court and the foreperson told Judge Gordon Kerr KC that they had found Wilson guilty of all counts by unanimous verdict.

After the verdict was read out, Wilson sat down in the dock and started crying into a handkerchief.

He was released on continuing bail to be sentenced in December.

Opening the Crown case earlier this week, a senior KC prosecutor told the jury sitting on the trial at Belfast Crown Court that all the charges related to August 5, 2020, when two pipe bomb devices were left on the cars of players from East Belfast GAA attending a training session at the playing fields.

It was not until the following day that the devices were found on the windscreens of two cars owned by male players.

A female also found a black-handled screwdriver in the passenger-side wiper well of her car.

Said the senior prosecutor: “They were the component parts to a bomb. These were crude devices and they would not have been effective if they detonated.

“The offences in this case were nakedly sectarian which raises passions in Northern Ireland.”

by vague_intentionally_

28 comments

  2. Lol hope they lock him up for the rest of his bitter old life. The gall to cry and act surprised after facing consequences for doing something like this.

  13. Still amazes me to see that he’s FIFTY NINE. Grow the fuck up

  14. I’m guessing he didn’t agree with the community inclusion, sad old sectarian fuckwit

  15. That club has had to put up with some serious amount of harassment. It’s about time they started prosecuting these idiots who want to kill people for merely playing sports.

  17. Rat cunts intentions were to kill and main GAA members,

    Hope he fuckin rots

    Imagine being that age and acting like you’re part of some fucking awe inspiring movment.

  19. Sad bitter old man wanting to kill children for playing a sport. Fucking loser.

  20. A 59 year old man thought sticking bombs on cars was the way to go? All because of what sport they play? What an absolute relic of a bygone era, crying in court like he’s the fucking victim.

  21. This parasite wanted to kill people out of pure bigotry and yet still gets bail until December. Cunt should be locked up already.

  23. this is extremely satisfying

    this is what he gets for acting the cunt. what a cunt

  25. Crying into a handkerchief is the bit that I’m enjoying most. Like some Victorian widow FFS. You tried to kill people you fucking nonce, it’s long past time for etiquette.

  28. Orange baffoon!

    The Wilson and Herron families were related in the Braniel I believe, he’s probably some relative to that old U.D.A wanker, Tommy Herron.

    Video on YouTube.

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