Whakakīhia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko McAlpine te mea i runga i te rarangi whaainga o te Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). I roto ia i te kapa a Thatcher i te wā i whakaekehia ai te IRA
i whakaeke i te Grand Hotel i Brighton i te tau 1984, engari kaore i whara. I te tau 1990 ka whakaekehia e te IRA a West Green House, he whare rangatira i Hartley Wintney, i noho ai ia i etahi wiki i mua, ana i mua ake nei ko Thatcher te manuhiri. I te waenganui o te 1980, mo nga take haumaru me te taake, i whakatau a McAlpine ki te neke ki Monaco me Venice. I mua i tana wehenga kua hokona e ia te nuinga o ana taonga i Sotheby's.