Brighton Bomber Patrick Magee has revealed he plotted an attack against Jim Callaghan's Labour party at their conference in the seaside town, before going on to kill five people in the 1984 blast during the Tory's event. Magee placed a bomb at the Grand Hotel on the Sussex seafront in a bid to kill Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative cabinet as part of an IRA attack. Five people died in the blast and 31 were injured. Magee was given eight life sentences but was released in 1999 after serving just 14 years in prison. He has now revealed how seven years before the Grand Hotel attack, he had scouted out the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 as the IRA plotted to hit back at the then-Labour Government over its Northern Ireland policies.