Roy Walsh was a former Provisional IRA volunteer . He was convicted for his part in the IRA 's 1973 Old Bailey bombing which injured over 200 people and one person died from a heart attack due to the bombing . Walsh joined the IRA in the wake of the August 1969 riots in Belfast in which Bombay Street a Catholic/Nationalist area was burned to the ground by a Loyalist sectarian mob , 1,820 families ( mostly Catholics ) had to be evacuated and the British Army sent in to keep the peace . Walsh joined the Provisional IRA 's Belfast Brigade , which was allegedly Commanded by Gerry Adams at the time and Adams picked the 11-person Active service unit to carry out the 1973 London bombings , Walsh , along with Volunteers Gerry Kelly , Hugh Feeney , sisters Dolours Price & Marian Price along with six other Volunteers from the Belfast Brigade made up the rest of the ASU tasked with the London bombings
1973 Old Bailey bombing
1973 Old Bailey bombing
Roy Walsh