IRA ‘planned to knock out power supply’ to south east of England

South east England’s power supply was the target of an IRA plot in the final years of its terror campaign, a former member has claimed.

The plan, which is alleged to have been formed in the mid-1990s, was formed shortly before the Belfast Agreement was formed.

A former US Marine turned IRA gun runner, John Crawley, made the claim in a new programme marking the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of troubles in Northern Ireland.

Details are revealed in the final episode of the BBC series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History.

Crawley, who had previously been caught smuggling guns from the United States for the IRA, told the programme how he was arrested just before a plan to bomb London’s electricity supply was carried out.

Via BBC