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On 1 July a group of guerrillas returning from the Northern Range were intercepted at a
police roadblock and a gunfight ensued. One NUFF member, Hillary Valentine, was killed
and three policemen were injured. Valentine's funeral attracted four thousand
mourners.:54 On 23 February 1973 the Barclays Bank on Tragarete Road in Port of Spain was robbed by five men and
a woman—later identified as Andrea Jacob—who stole TT$100,000 (equivalent to £20,800 at the time) and a security guard's
revolver.:294
Acting on a tip, the police, led by Assistant Superintendent Randolph Burroughs, ambushed
a group of NUFF members at a safe house in Laventille later that day. Four NUFF
members were killed including John Beddoe.:54:294 Jamaican sociologist Brian Meeks  described Beddoe's death to be "a major

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blow to the movement as he is one of the people with genuine organizational capability and the leading advocate of the line for greater propaganda, education and consolidation".
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On 1 June NUFF guerrillas used gelignite to destroy a transformer at the Textel Earth
Station, Trinidad and Tobago's international satellite link, and left a message for Burroughs "that if he
wanted [them] to come in the bush for [them]".:48 Police responding to the incident were ambushed by guerrillas who
injured four of them. As head of the Flying Squad, a specialised "anti-drug and anti-radical brigade", Burroughs was seen
as an "icon of heroic manhood, public order and punishment" by his middle class admirers, and "public enemy number
one" by Black radicals.:291
On 6 August insurgents attacked a Trinidad-Tesoro Oil Company police station in south
Trinidad,:54 stealing weapons and money. The following day, a group of nine attacked Matelot Police Station where one policeman
was on duty, who they captured along with 13 shotguns, a pistol and ammunition. The insurgents set off explosives in the building, but released their captive unharmed. :
297 These attacks
prompted a joint operation by the army and police against the rebels, :27 and the government offered large rewards for
Jeffers, Harewood and Jacob.:55
The offer of rewards for the capture of NUFF's leaders, coupled with the use of
"increasingly repressive measures" to obtain information from suspects, allowed the police
to ambush the northern group at their camp in Valencia on 28 August. Although the
guerrillas all escaped with only minor injuries, the attack showed the benefits of the police's
change in tactics.:55 On 13 September two hundred police and soldiers surprised the guerrillas
in Caura,:297 where they had retreated after the attack in Valencia. :55 A NUFF sentry at the camp was killed and
Jennifer Jones was captured. As the insurgents fled the attack on the camp, Kenneth Tenia and Jennifer's sister Beverly
were killed by the police.:297
The killing of Beverly Jones and the arrest of her sister Jennifer drew an international
response. Historian and political activist C. L. R. James sent a telegram to Williams
"deplor[ing] the violent death of Beverley Jones and demand[ing the] immediate release
of Jennifer Jones". Protests organised at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in
London included members of the British Black Panthers, whos