Parents of IRA bomb victim never want to know killer’s identity

The parents of a 12-year-old boy who died in an IRA bomb attack have told how they never want to know the identity of their son’s killer because it would upset them too much.

Tim Parry was one of two young children — the other was three-year-old Johnathan Ball — who died in Warrington in north-west England in Mar 1993 when two bombs detonated in the town centre, injuring 54 people.

The public outrage that followed in Ireland, which manifested itself with a rally of 20,000 people on O’Connell St, marked a turning point in the Troubles and helped convince the IRA to call a ceasefire the following year.