Joe Doherty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joe Doherty
Occupation	Stevedore
Date Of Birth	Jan 20, 1955(1955-01-20)
Age	69
Birthplace	Belfast
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Joe Doherty Biography

Joe Doherty is one of the most popular and richest Stevedore who was born on January 20, 1955 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Docker’s son, Doherty was born on 20 January 1955 in New Lodge, Belfast. Doherty quit school at the age of 14 and started work in the docks becoming an apprentice plumber prior to being detained in 1972, on his 17th birthday, under the Special Powers Act. Doherty was imprisoned in the jail vessel HMS Maidstone and Long Kesh Detention Centre and during his time being held, he heard about the tragic events that took place on Bloody Sunday in Derry, where 14 civil rights activists were killed in the hands of the British Army. Doherty was then a member of the IRA following his release on June 22, 1972. In the late 1970s, Doherty was found guilty of possessing of explosives and sentenced six years at Long Kesh. In December of 1979, he was freed.

Doherty fled across his border to the Republic of Ireland, and later travelled to the United States on a false passport. He was living with an American lover and a girlfriend from the United States in Brooklyn as well as New Jersey, working on construction sites and also as bartender in Clancy’s Bar in Manhattan, in which he was detained at the hands of the FBI on the 28th of June, 1983. Doherty was incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and a legal battle began in which the British government trying to extradite him into Northern Ireland. Doherty claimed that he was not exempt from extradition because the murder in the murder of Westmacott is a political decision and stated that “It was an operation that was typical of all operations where we set up an ambush of a British military convoy… It is a war, and this was a military action” and in 1985 the federal court magistrate John E. Sprizzo ruled Doherty was not able to be extradited since the shooting was considered a “political offense”. Doherty’s legal fight continued even in the meantime as his attorney, the United States Department of Justice was attempting to deport him after he entered in the US illegally.

In August 1991, Doherty was transferred to a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and on 16 January 1992 the Supreme Court of the United States overturned a 1990 Federal Appeals Court ruling by a 5-to-3 decision, paving the way for his deportation. On 19 February 1992 Doherty was deported to Northern Ireland, despite pleas to delay the deportation from members of Congress, Mayor of New York City David Dinkins, and the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, John Joseph O’Connor. Doherty was returned to Crumlin Road prison before being transferred to HM Prison Maze, and was released from prison on 6 November 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. After his release Doherty became a community worker specialising in helping disadvantaged young people. In 2006, he appeared in the BBC television show Facing the Truth opposite the relatives of a soldier killed in the Warrenpoint ambush.

The trials of Doherty as well as the others of the M60 gang started in the early part of May 1981, based on allegations that included 3 counts of murder. On the 10th of June, Doherty along with seven other prisoners as well as Angelo Fusco and the other members of the IRA group, held an officer in the prison with a gun in Crumlin Road Jail. After locking the officer into one of the cells, the group held other officers as well as visiting solicitors as hostages, and also locked them in cells following the theft of their clothes. Two of them wore uniforms worn by officers and a third was wearing clothes obtained from a solicitor and the group walked toward the first gate of three that separated them from the outside world. They held the guard in the gate the point of firing, and made him open the gate inside. A guard at the other gate recognized some of them. The prisoner entered an office and activated an alarm button. Then, prisoners fled through the second gate , heading towards the gate at the other end. The officer at the outside gate attempted to stop the escape, but was savagely assaulted by the prisoners who fled into Crumlin Road. While the prisoners were making their way towards the parking lot where two cars were parked at the entrance, an unidentified RUC vehicle pulled up on the street in front of the Crumlin Road Courthouse. The RUC officers opened fire and the inmates reacted before escaping from the cars waiting to be released. After escaping for two days, Doherty was convicted in absence and sentenced to life imprisonment, with the minimum recommended sentence of 30 years.

Joe Doherty Net Worth

Joe Doherty is one of the richest Stevedore from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joe Doherty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joe Doherty (born 20 January 1955) is an Irish former member of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was able to escape during the trial of his in 1981 for killing an employee of the Special Air Service (SAS) in the year 1980. He was detained at the border of the United States in 1983, and was made a cause célèbre after a nine-year legal fight against extradition and deportation. The result was one street corner in New York City being named in his honor.

Following the release of Doherty, Doherty became part of an active service unit of four men known as”the “M60 gang” due to their use of an M60 heavy machine gun alongside Angelo Fusco and Paul Magee. On April 9, 1980, the unit snatched members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) into an ambush in Stewartstown Road, killing one constable and injuring two other. The 2nd of May, the unit was planning another attack and had taken control of the house located in Antrim Road, when an eight-man troop from the SAS was spotted in plain clothing after being alerted by RUC. A car with three SAS members travelled towards the back of the home while a car carrying five SAS members was parked in front. When the SAS members in their front left the vehicle, an IRA unit fired an M60 gun through the upstairs window, striking Capt. Herbert Westmacott in the head and shoulder. Westmacott died instantly, was the most senior soldier of the SAS who was killed by the SAS in Northern Ireland. Other SAS members who were at the front, equipped in Colt Commando automatic rifles, submachine guns, and Browning pistols, reacted with fire but were forced to retreat. Magee was snatched by SAS members in the back of the house, while trying to make for the IRA unit’s escape using the vehicle of a transporter while the other three IRA members remain inside the home. Additional security forces were sent to the scene, and following an initial siege, other members from the IRA unit surrendered.

Doherty remained in custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and attempted to claim political asylum, and on 15 June 1988 the Attorney General Edwin Meese overturned an earlier ruling by the Federal Board of Immigration Appeals that Doherty could be deported to the Republic of Ireland, and ordered his deportation to Northern Ireland. In February 1989 new Attorney General Dick Thornburgh chose not to support the decision made by his predecessor, and asked lawyers for Doherty and the Immigration and Naturalization Service to submit arguments for a review of the decision and Doherty’s claim for asylum. By this time Doherty’s case was a cause célèbre with his sympathisers including over 130 Congressmen and a son of then President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and in 1990 a street corner near the Metropolitan Correctional Center was named after him.

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Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Stevedore. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Joe Doherty celebrates birthday on January 20 of every year.