Nine arrested over ‘mistaken identity’ IED explosion in Sydney’s inner west


A group’s attempt at revenge for stolen drugs has left an innocent 55-year-old woman “traumatised” and six men facing up to 25 years in prison after an improvised explosive device was detonated on the balcony of a Canterbury home in June this year, according to police.

Police say that a group of nine males – one 17-year-old boy and eight men – planted a makeshift bomb made of aerosol cans, sparklers and thumbtacks on the balcony of the Robert Street home she and her 19-year-old son share in what Burwood Detective Superintendent Paul Devaney called “an act of retribution for the alleged theft of prohibited drugs belonging to criminal group members”.

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Source: The Sydney Morning Herald