“The defendant was a member of an organisation that used firearms and bombs to carry out attacks against Roman Catholics and their property. He was told by a member of the organisation to drive his car to an inn in the locality where he lived in such a manner that he acted as guide to a following car [a Cortina] containing three or four men, who were strangers to the area. Having reached the inn, he drove off and one of the men in the following car placed a bomb with a burning fuse in the hallway of the inn. The landlord's son was able to detach the detonator and fuse from the bomb and throw them into the road where the detonator exploded. The defendant later learnt that what he described as a “job” for the organisation was in fact an attempt to bomb the inn. He was charged and convicted of unlawfully and maliciously doing an act with intent to cause an explosion likely to endanger life, contrary tosection 3 (a) of the Explosive Substances Act 1883 and possession of the bomb, contrary tosection 3 (b) of the Act . ...”
“… the facts of this case make it clear to me that the accused knew the men in the Cortina car were going to attack the inn and had the means of attacking the inn with them in their car. The accused may not, as he says, have known what form the attack was going to take, but in my judgment he knew the means of the attack, be they bomb, bullet or incendiary device, were present in that car.”
“Upon the facts as found by the trial judge ... , the appellant knew he was guiding a party of men [in the Cortina] to the Crosskeys Inn on a U.V.F. military-style “job,” i.e. an attack by bomb, incendiary device or bullet on persons or property. He did not know the particular type of offence intended, but he must have appreciated that it was very likely that those whom he was assisting intended a bomb attack on the inn. If the appellant contemplated, as he clearly did, a bomb attack as likely he must also have contemplated the possibility that the men in the car, which he was leading to the inn, had an explosive substance with them. Though he did not know whether they had it with them or not, he must have believed it very likely that they did. In the particular circumstances of this case, the inference that the two offences of possessing the explosive and using it with intent to cause injury or damage were within the appellant's contemplation is fully justified upon the evidence.”
“In DPP for Northern Ireland v Maxwellthe House of Lords recognized the full effect of the principle in Bainbridge: that there was no strict requirement that D knows the precise offence P will commit. D assisted P by intentionally driving him to a pub, realizing that P intended to commit one or more of a number of offences, including: planting a bomb at the pub, shooting people at the pub or committing a robbery at the pub. In fact, P intended to plant, and did plant, a bomb there. D was liable as an accessory to that offence. The principle derived from Maxwell is that if D gives assistance to P, knowing that P intends to commit a crime, foreseeing that it is one or more of crime X, or crime Y, or crime Z, but being uncertain as to which, D will be liable as a secondary party to whichever of those crimes P in fact commits.”