Maxwell v DPP for Northern Ireland [1978] 3 All ER 1140
Judgement for the case Maxwell v DPP for Northern Ireland
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Defendant 2 was ordered by his organisation to guide Defendant 1 (in a following car) to a pub where RCs lived.
Defendant 1 placed a bomb in the pub which was defused but fulfilled the requirements of the offence of endangering people’s lives.
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HL upheld Defendant 2’s conviction for aiding the offence.
HL said that it was unnecessary to show that Defendant 2 knew the precise details of the offence, but it sufficed that Defendant 2 knew the type of offence to be committed or the essential matters constituting the offence.
Given that Defendant 2’s organisation carried out armed attacks on RCs regularly he must have been aware of the type of offence, i.e. an armed attack.
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