FOR THE MOTION
Lorraine and Adam work as a team at Design Against Crime and made a joint presentation as one team.
LORRAINE GAMMAN
Lorraine is Professor in Design Studies, in the School of Graphic and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, where she has taught for over 15 years. She is also Co Director of Design Against Crime (DAC) at the University of the Arts London, which she set up in 2000, and which was validated as a new Research Centre by the University in 2005. She is currently Vice Chair of Designing Out Crime Association(DOCA), and a member of the Home Office’s 2007 “Design and Technology Alliance”
Lorraine Gamman is currently co-directing several collaborative externally funded research projects on bag and bike theft. These aim to use research to create pragmatic design resources, as well as new designs against crime. Design innovation generated by DAC projects is user-tested, prototyped with industry and applied in the real world to prove efficacy, prior to being disseminated more broadly.
ADAM THORPE
Adam is Associate Director of Design Against Crime, as well as Director of its Bikeoff.org initiative.
He is also currently Reader in Socially Responsive Design, in the School of Graphic and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where he has worked since 2003. His research activities with the DAC Research Centre are practice-led and design focused. He has applied research findings to create numerous anti crime products, most recent designs include a range of anti theft bike parking stands delivered in 2007.
DEBATE RESPONSE
Bicycle Bombs
In the debate much of the discussion of bicycle bombs and the need to defend against them focused on the ban on parking bicycles in selected parts of Westminster near the Houses of Parliament and other government buildings.
Lorraine and Adam have helpfully provided the evidence in the list below on which they have based their opinion that bicycle bombs pose a real threat against which potential terrorist targets should be defended. They say:
“This list is from open access sources Adam and I researched – obviously Nactso/ Home Office have access to sensitive information on this subject (or unreported incidents) that we are not privy to so do not think this a definitive list…rather just the one we formed our opinions from.”
BICYLCLE BOMBS
DATE-LOCATION-REMARKS-TERRORIST-GROUP
25.08.39
Coventry-Bicycle packed with explosives detonates and kills five people-(Barnes and Richards arrested)PIRA
09.06.79
Streatly Berkshire-Explosion in a mail bag on a postmans cycle-(postal device)PIRA
June 1982
Frankfurt Germany-Bomb detonates on a bicycle outside the US Army Centre-RED ARMY FACTION RAF
29.08.85
Northern Ireland Belfast-Dundalk Booby trapped bicycle on a train explodes and injures two RUC and other security personnel-INLA
05.08.88
Ratingen Germany-Bomb planted on a bicycle explodes at Roy Barracks-PIRA
25.03.89
Armritsar India-Person killed when an IED on a bicycle explodes-SIKH
30.03.90
Northern Ireland Newry-Bomb constructed in a cycle chained to a lamp post(photo flash unit operated device)-PIRA
30.01.92
Batticaloa Sri Lanka IEDs in two cycles function, three people killed- TAMIL TIGERS LTTE
30.01.92
Batticaloa Sri Lanka IED explodes, at Kabimai Police Station.TAMIL TIGERS LTTE
01.05.93
Colombo Sri Lanka Suicide bomber riding a cycle bomb which detonates and kills the President of Sri Lanka. TAMIL TIGERS LTTE
13.08.94
London Road Bognor Regis Sussex Explosion on device in pannier of hired cycle PIRA
13.08.94
The Pier Brighton Sussex Explosion on device in pannier of hired cycle PIRA
05.08.99
Vavuniya, Sri Lanka Suicide Bomber peddled cycle strapped with explosives up to a truck carrying members of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, triggering a blast that killed twelve and injured thirty. TAMIL TIGERS LTTE
02.05.02
Pereira Colombia Bicycle bomb functioned ,killing 2 civilians and injuring 2 soldiers FARC
30.05.02
Arauca Colombo A RCIED was hidden on a bicycle and functioned killing a soldier and injured 6 others FARC
19.09.02
Rivera Colombia A bicycle bomb killed 7 people including 4 policeman and a young boy FARC
04.08.04
Afghan Logar Province A number of children were killed as a bicycle bomb exploded as their vehicle drove past. TALEBAN (The Global Terrorism data base puts the number at 3 and reports that the explosive was attached to the bicycle
25.11.04
Baluchistan Pakistan A remote control bomb fixed to a bicycle killed 1 man and injured 15 other people UNKNOWN
28.03.05
Al –Hillah Iraqi 5 Iraqis, including 3 policeman were killed and 2 others were wounded in a suicide attack in which a booby trapped bicycle was used. The explosion targeted a funeral procession in the city UNKNOWN
28.04.05
Cali Colombia A bicycle bomb left 5 people injured and damaged three buses in a residential area. UNKNOWN
30.05.05
Kabul Afghanistan A remote control bomb attached to a parked bicycle exploded wounding 4 soldiers in a taxi from the NATO led peace keeping force UNKNOWN
25.09.05
South Baghdad A bomb concealed in a bicycle exploded in a market, killing 6 people and injuring 17 UNKNOWN
25.09.05
Babil Baghdad One person was killed and 48 injured after a bicycle bomb exploded UNKNOWN
26.01.06
Central Baghdad A bicycle bomb exploded beside a police vehicle wounding 3 police officers UNKNOWN
26.01.06
Tahrir Central Baghdad A booby trapped bike exploded as a police vehicle was passing. Injuring 2 policemen and a civilian.UNKNOWN
30.05.06
Lycabbetus Central Athens Greece A device explode which had been placed on a bicycle that had been parked between two parked vehicles. The explosives were estimated at 1.5 kilos of high explosive. UNKNOWN
23.06.06
Alaawi Baghdad 2 people were killed and eight others were injured when a bike bomb explode near the Baghdad Cinema in Alaawi UNKNOWN
27.06.06
Shiite Village Baquba Iraqi 22 Iraqis, including children were killed when a bike bomb exploded in a market square where villages were watching a World Cup football match between Italy and Australia. UNKNOWN
29.10.06
Quette Pakistan A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks killing 1 and injuring 12 others. NATIONALIST BALOCH REBELS
04.11.06
Suwayra Baghdad A bicycle bomb explode in a crowded market UNKNOWN
14.11.06
Quetta Pakistan A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded killing 2 and injuring 15 others. The device was detonated by a timing device. UNKNOWN
13.05.07
Izmir Port Turkey A homemade bomb left on a bicycle exploded at a market in the Turkish port city of Izmir killing 1 person and injuring 14 UNKNOWN
22.05.08
Kandahar Afghanistan A bicycle packed with explosives killed one soldier of the Afghan National Army & wounded another. It appears to have been detonated by remote control
06.06.08
Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan 5 people including 3 policemen were killed when a bomb apparently targeting a police party exploded in northwestern Pakistan. Remote controlled device planted on a bicycle.
