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The scene of the bombing on October 12, 1984 "I'm glad to say that she never forgave those who blew up the Grand Hotel," Lord Tebbit remarked. "We all know it's a Christian duty to forgive - but not those who will not repent, and of course the people who did this have never repented; they were joyful about what they had done." Belfast IRA man Patrick Magee was convicted of planting the killer bomb and given eight life sentences at the Old Bailey in 1986, with a recommendation that he spend at least 35 years in jail. He was released in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

The wife of Conservative peer Lord Norman Tebbit - who was paralysed by the IRA’s Brighton bomb - has died. Lady Margaret Tebbit (86) - who was seriously injured in the 1984 attack on the Grand Hotel in Brighton - passed away in the early hours of Saturday. She had been suffering from Lewy Body Dementia, which left her needing 24-hour nursing care. Lord Tebbit told the Daily Telegraph: “She'd been ill for a very long time with wretched Lewy Body Dementia. She was much loved and will be much missed." He thanked the nurses and carers who helped to look after his wife for many years.

Margaret Tebbit: Ex-minister's wife who survived IRA bomb dies aged 86 Published Lady Margaret Tebbit, a former nurse and wife of ex-Conservative minister Norman Tebbit, has died, aged 86. She was paralysed by the IRA's October 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference. Lady Tebbit is understood to have died at the couple's home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, in the early hours of Saturday morning. She had been suffering from Lewy Body Dementia. Prime Minister Boris Johnson described Lady Tebbit as "a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her s...

“She was much loved and will be much missed.” The Tebbits were both badly injured when a bomb ripped through the Victorian seafront hotel in Brighton during the 1984 Conservative Party conference, killing five and injuring 34. A photograph of the then trade secretary being stretchered from the wreckage in his pyjamas became one of the enduring images of the attack. The Tebbits were both badly injured when a bomb ripped through the Grand Hotel in Brighton (Image: PA) Lady Tebbit, then 50, spent two years undergoing treatment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic H...

Boris Johnson has paid tribute to Lady Margaret Tebbit after she passed away aged 86.  Writing on Twitter, the Prime Minister paid a heartfelt tribute to Lady Tebbit, calling her a 'brave woman who showed enormous fortitude.' The PM added: 'Very sad to hear the news of Margaret Tebbit's death. She was a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her suffering after the 1984 Brighton bombing. My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time.'  Lady Tebbit, who was paralysed in the notorious 1984 IRA Brighton bombing that also left her then Cabinet member husband Norman ...