George McMahon (assassin)
- George McMahon (assassin)
George McMahon was an Irish journalist and would be assassin of King Edward VIII when, on 16 July 1936, he pulled a gun as the was riding through Hyde Park after leaving an army parade during the Colour ceremony. However, police quickly acted and managed to disarm him after a struggle with the revolver falling under Edward's carriage as continued safely down Constitution Hill. McMahon, a right-wing extremist angered by the Home Secretary, was thought to be mentally ill and later claimed to have been working for MI5.
McMahon had earlier attempted to provide questionable evidence of Irish and Republican plots against the British government, including a claim of plans to ship weapons to the Irish Free State in 1935 as well as reports of Italian agents operation from the Italian embassy, before publishing anti-semitic literature and other letters to "The Daily Worker".
Although under the attention of the Security Service, his warnings against a supposed assassination plot by Communists was ignored and, two days later, he managed to throw a loaded revolver at the King during a parade before being arrested by the Metropolitan Police on 16 July 1936.
McMahon was subsequently sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, however, shortly after his release he continued his subversive activities. During November 1939, he claimed in a letter to have been have had a personal audience with senior Nazi official Julius Streicher the previous year and offered information from that meeting to British authorities.
The following year, he began sending anti-Semitic letters (which included an attack on Minister of War Leslie Hoare-Belisha) using War Office letterheads on the pretext of official government communications. McMahon continued to be under the surveillance of the Security Service between 1945 until 1951, and intercepted several letters including one to Oswald Mosley.
External links
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2004/may21/right_wing.htm National Archives: Right-wing extremists]
* [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article124409.ece The Independent: I was paid £150 to shoot the King, claimed caretaker]
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