Brighton bomber Magee ‘stands by his actions’

PATRICK MAGEE, the IRA man who planted the Brighton bomb which killed five people during the Conservative Party conference almost 20 years ago, has said: “I stand by my actions.”

Magee has said he felt relief the bomb had exploded as he watched television coverage of the atrocity in a bar in Cork.

He had planted the bomb on a long-term timer 24 days before it exploded in the suite above that occupied by Margaret Thatcher.