Hyde Park bomber ordered to pay victim s family £715,000
Four Household Cavalry soldiers died in the IRA attack as they rode to the Changing of Guard ceremony in Whitehall in 1982
16 December 2020 • 5:37pm
From left, Sarah Jane Young, Mark Tipper whose brother was killed in the bombing and Judith Jenkins the widow of Geoffrey Young
IRA terrorist John Downey has been ordered to pay £715,000 in damages to the mother and daughter of a soldier murdered in the Hyde Park bombing 38 years ago.
Sarah Jane Young, the daughter of Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young, was forced to sue Downey in the High Court after his criminal trial was thrown out in 2014 when he produced a so-called ‘comfort letter’ that gave him an effective amnesty from prosecution.