Spanish police arrest man in IRA probe
A suspected IRA member wanted for a fatal bomb attack on the British Army headquarters in Northern Ireland was today being questioned by Spanish police.
Michael Gerard Rogan, the prime suspect in the 1996 IRA bomb attack on Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn, Co Antrim, which killed Warrant Officer James Bradwell, 43, and injured 31 other people, was arrested in the Canary Islands.
Rogan, a kitchen designer from Easton Avenue in north Belfast, was charged with conspiring to cause the explosion, but failed to return to court in November 1997.
A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesman said: “A man was arrested on October 11, 2004 in Tenerife on foot of a European Arrest Warrant.
“Following this individual’s non-appearance at a Belfast court, a warrant had been issued for his arrest on November 1997.”
Rogan is understood to have been one of the IRA On-The-Runs who appeared on a list of fugitives Sinn Féin submitted to the British government for amnesty in 2002.
Among others on the list are the men wanted in connection with the Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen in 1987, which killed 11 and injured 63.
