He is a former Provisional IRA prisoner . He was arrested in 1981 , when explosives and bomb making equipment were found under his bed . He was charged with possession of explosives . He jumped bail , but was arrested in Buffalo , New York in February 1982 and extradited to the Republic of Ireland , where in April 1983 , he was sentenced to ten years ' imprisonment in Portlaoise Prison . In 1983 , Ellis ' fingerprints were found on a huge cache of IRA explosives found in a forest outside the Berkshire town of Pangbourne . The cache was linked to the Harrods and Hyde Park bombings . On 14 November 1990 , after thirty-five days on hunger-strike , Ellis became the first person extradited from the Republic of Ireland to the United Kingdom under the 1987 Extradition Act . He went on hunger strike to protest efforts to send him to Britain , but was extradited in the sixth week of his fast . Ellis had been convicted of possessing multiple power-timer units for IRA bombs , including those suspected of being used in the Hyde Park and Regent 's Park bombings
Harrods
1993 Harrods bombing
Dessie Ellis