Marine Maxwell jailed for 18 years

A Royal Marine from Larne who admitted bomb-making charges has been jailed for 18 years.

Thirty-one-year-old Ciaran Maxwell was sentenced today at the Old Bailey in London.

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Ciarán Maxwell.

Judge, Mr. Justice Sweeney, said that Maxwell is a “dangerous person”, “an extremely skilled bomb-maker who enjoyed his work”.

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