Sussex Arms pub bombing
On 12 October 1992, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb that had been planted in the gents' toilets in the Sussex Arms pub in Upper St Martins Lane near Long Acre, London, killing a man and injuring seven other people.[1][2]
| Sussex Arms pub bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Troubles | |
| Location | Sussex Arms, Long Acre, Covent Garden, City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom |
| Date | 12 October 1992 13:30 (UTC) |
Attack type | Bomb |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Injured | 7 |
| Perpetrator | Provisional Irish Republican Army |
A telephone call to a radio station was made at 1:21 pm, nine minutes before the bomb exploded, saying a bomb had been placed "in the Leicester Square area"; a tourist-frequented spot nearby.
The bomb exploded at 1:30pm, injuring eight people. One of the wounded - thirty-year-old nurse David Heffer - died from his injuries in hospital.[3] It was the eighth IRA bomb in London in a six-day period.[4]
It was the first IRA pub bombing in England to kill people since the November 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, and the first IRA pub bombing in Britain causing injuries since the Hare and Hounds pub bombing in Lower Boxley Road in Kent in September 1975, when two police officers were injured in an IRA car bombing.[5]
References
- Moore, Steve (21 September 2015). "Jeremy Corbyn's Inconvenient Truth".
- Robinson, Eugene (13 October 1992). "BOMB IN LONDON PUB INJURES SEVEN" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- "IRA pub blast victim dies of his injuries". Independent.co.uk. 14 October 1992. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022.
- and, William E. Schmidt (13 October 1992). "5 HURT IN LONDON BY ANOTHER BOMB". The New York Times.
- "Two hurt by IRA bomb at pub". Kent Messenger Maidstone. 2 October 2009. Archived from the original on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2023 – via PressReader.