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William J. Staunton, 1928-25 January 1973, Resident Magistrate killed by the IRA. Staunton was a Catholic member of the judiciary. Shortly before 9 am on the morning of 11 October 1972, he was driving his daughter and her school friends to St. Dominick's Convent Grammar School, on the Falls Road, Belfast. He stopped the car outside St. Dominick's and the girls got out. As they did so, two members of the IRA upon a motor cycle came alongside the car, the pillion passenger shooting Staunton. He underwent emergency surgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, but never regained consciousness, dying at 9.55 pm on Thursday 25 January 1973. Staunton was the first of a number of judges killed or attacked by the IRA during the 1970s and 1980s. Others included Rory Conaghan and Martin McBirney in 1974, William Doyle in 1983, and Lord Justice Sir Maurice Gibson in 1987. The IRA were also responsible for the deaths of Lord Justice Gibson's wife Cecily, and Mary Travers (a daughter of Judge Tom Travers), shot alongside her father after leaving a Catholic church. ==External links== * http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/sutton/chron/1973.html * http://www.duhaime.org/LawMag/LawArticle-1332/To-Kill-A-Judge-The-Worst-of-Crimes.aspx * http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990520/text/90520w02.htm * http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=102424 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William J. Staunton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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