Kammala wannan jumla: McAlpine an yi zargin cewa yana cikin jerin sunayen 'yan kungiyar Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Yana cikin tawagar Thatcher lokacin da IRA
ya jefa bam a Grand Hotel a Brighton a shekarar 1984, amma bai ji rauni ba. A cikin 1990 IRA ta jefa bam a West Green House, wani gida a Hartley Wintney, inda ya zauna makonni kaɗan da suka gabata, kuma inda a baya Thatcher ta kasance baƙo. A tsakiyar shekarun 1980, saboda dalilai na tsaro da haraji, McAlpine ya yanke shawarar komawa Monaco da Venice. Kafin tafiyarsa ya sayar da yawancin kayansa a Sotheby's.