Russell Street bombing
Russell Street Bombing
Date: 27 March 1986
A deadly car bomb causing immense damage and shattered windows of buildings as far as a block away as it exploded outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters at 1pm March 27 1986.
Constable Angela Taylor lost her life and another 21 people were injured due to the explosion and shrapnel released from the car bomb.
Witnesses reported that a loud bang went off and smoke could be seen billowing from vantage points in the Melbourne CBD.
It was a horrifying revenge attack by two known criminals, Stanley Taylor and Craig Minogue obviously trying to inflict as much carnage and destruction as possible.
Taylor and Minogue were found guilty of the bombing attack and were sentenced to life imprisonment.