Michael Wainhouse

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Michael Wainhouse was a British soldier and mercenary.

Northern Ireland

Wainhouse served in 1 Battalion, Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland.[1]

He was one of four soldiers charged with bank robbery in January 1972. The Irish News reported:

Four British soldiers serving in Northern Ireland appeared at a special court at Bangor yesterday, charged with stealing £93 from Clandeboye Post Office last Tuesday:
The soldiers, members of the Parachute Regiment stationed at Palace Barracks, are also charged with putting the Post Master, Mr. Oswald Walsh, in fear of being subjected to force.
They are Privates Cyril Verbeck (21), Stephen Peter Kirby (21), Michael Wainhouse (22) and Costas Georgiou (21). They were remanded on their own bail of £20 into military custody to appear at Bangor Magistrate's Court on February 2.[2]

According to Tony Geraghty, Georgiou and Wainhouse were convicted and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.[3]

Notes

  1. Tony Geraghty, Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering, Piatkus, 2008. p.60.
  2. British soldiers on post office theft charge, Irish News, 21 January 1972.
  3. Tony Geraghty, Guns for Hire: The Inside Story of Freelance Soldiering, Piatkus, 2008. p.60.