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A woman who spent 24 years on the run before pleading guilty to a 1975 attempted police car bombing, has been released after a seven-year jail term.

Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, was a member of the militant Symbionese Liberation Army.

The group became famous for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in 1974.

Olson also pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of a woman during a 1975 bank raid. She spent her fugitive years living as a housewife in Minnesota.

The police finally caught her in 1999, acting on a tip-off prompted by a profile of Olson that had been broadcast on the TV programme America's Most Wanted.

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