Victim's father marks 30 years since Warrington IRA bombing

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Victim's father marks 30 years since Warrington IRA bombing
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Dad whose 12-year-old son was killed by IRA bomb 30 years ago says campaigning for peace is 'glue which has kept the family together'

Colin Parry and his wife Wendy have spent the last three decades campaigning for peace

Tim Parry and three-year-old Johnathan Ball died and 54 others were hurt when two bombs hidden inside litter bins exploded on 20 March 1993.Colin Parry said he and his wife Wendy had "focussed so much on turning something bad into something good". Mr Parry said: "I don't need to be a time traveller, I can go back that day, the moment when we heard there'd been a bomb and the moment we were told how badly injured Tim was and everything that flowed from that for the next five days.Johnathan Ball, three, and Tim Parry, 12, died after the IRA bombing

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