Marian McGlinchey has been given a suspended jail sentence for aiding and abetting terrorism at an Easter commemoration rally in Derry over three years ago.
Marian McGlinchey holds the address for a masked Real IRA man in Derry City Cemetery in 2011.
In November, McGlinchey, from Stockman’s Avenue in West Belfast – also known as Marian Price – pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting, counselling and procuring the address made to encourage support for the Real IRA at an Easter Rising commeoration rally in Derry City Cemetery on April 25, 2011.
The charge followed her appearance at the rally at which she was pictured holding a piece of paper for a masked man who issued threats against police officers during his address.
She also admitted to supplying a mobile phone linked to a Real IRA attack on Massereene Barracks in Antrim in which two British soldiers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar, were shot dead in 2009.
She had been on bail since then awaiting sentencing.
At Belfast Crown Court today, she was given a nine month sentence on the Derry charge and a 12 month jail term on the Massereene charge. Both sentences are to run concurrently and were suspended for three years.
Passing sentence, Judge Kerr said although the 59-year-old had served a previous “significant” prison sentence – she was one of eight IRA members jailed for the 1973 bombing of the Old Bailey criminal court in London in which one person was killed and over 200 injured – the risk of McGlinchey reoffending was low as her health was “poor and deteriorating” and she faced a significant risk of severe depression if returned to prison.
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