The blast killed 21 year old ConstableAngela Taylor, the first Australian policewoman to be slain in the line of duty, left 22 people injured and caused massive amounts of damage to the Russell Street Police Headquarters and surrounding buildings, with damage estimated at over a million dollars.
Craig 'Slim' Minogue and Stan Taylor were found guilty and sentenced for the 1986 bombing. Minogue was sentenced to life with a minimum non-parole period of 28 years and later received a second life sentence for the murder of an prison inmate Alex Tsakmakis, who was beaten with gym weights that had been hidden in a pillow case at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1988.
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When this street was first laid out by the fourth Earl of Bedford in the 1630's it was closed at its southern end a few yards north of the present junction with Exeter Street and Aldwych by the wall of Exeter House garden and the back premises of the White Hart Inn in the Strand.
In 1657 ground south of the street was bought from the fifth Earl by the tenant of the White Hart, (ref.
118) Clifton's previous tavern in RussellStreet, the Goat, does not seem to have been a very staid place, and although he subsequently figures in chapelry matters in respectable guise the Fleece itself was to become notorious for the murders committed there.
The RussellStreetBombing is the term by which the March 27, 1986bombing of the RussellStreet Police Headquarters complex in RussellStreet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is known.
Reed was charged with attempted murder, recklessly causing serious injury, using a firearm to prevent apprehension and possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances in addition to charges related to the RussellStreetbombing.
The crown did not allege that any person played any particular role in the bombing, but that each of them were members of a team which planned the bombing and caused the bomb to explode.
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