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Price denies two terrorist offences (UTV)

Old Bailey bomber Marian McGlinchey has denied two separate terrorist offences.

Standing in the dock of Belfast Crown Court on Thursday in a black coat, black trousers and horn tinned glasses, 59-year-old mousey-haired McGlinchey pleaded not guilty to providing a mobile phone for a terrorist purpose on 8 March 2009.

That charge arose from the investigation into the murders of Sappers Quinsey and Azimkar who were gunned down outside Massereene Barracks the previous day.

McGlinchey, from Stockman’s Lane in south west Belfast, also denied charges in a separate case which alleges she aided, abetted, counselled or procured a meeting in support of a proscribed organisation, namely the IRA, on 25 April 2011.

That case arose after McGlinchey, known as Marian Price, allegedly addressed a dissident republican organised Easter Sunday commemoration rally at Londonderry city cemetery.

Taking each case in turn, Judge Gordon Kerr QC said the charges involving the mobile phone would be heard first and set a trial date on 21 November.

He said however that due to McGlinchey’s health difficulties, the trial would only sit for half days with regular breaks. The other trial relating to the cemetery commemoration, said the judge, would follow on from the first trial but would again sit half days with regular breaks.

Releasing McGlinchey on continuing bail, Judge Kerr said reporting restrictions barring the media from recording her image would remain in place but could be revisited when the case came to trial.

McGlinchey served a jail sentence along with her late sister Dolours Price for the 1973 IRA bomb attack on the Old Bailey in London.

Her licence was revoked in 2011 and she spent two years in custody before she was finally released earlier this year.