News at Eleven (Back Page): [Martin McGuinness] himself dodged many bullets,

once admitting that he had been "fired at by the British army on countless occasions over 20 years". He also managed to avoid a determined loyalist assassin who was intent on killing him. He was good at evading the law, serving just two short prison sentences. He often, however, saw the inside of police interrogation centres, fending off detectives determined to make him crack.

from The Independent: Martin McGuinness: Peacemaker and poet

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