Bomb to M.P.
NZPA London A shaken Jill Knight, Tory, member of Parliament of Edgbaston, yesterday praised' the postman who spotted a deadly letter bomb sent to her at the House of Commons.
Mrs Knight said that the package, addressed to her but intercepted in the Commons mail room, was loaded with glass and was designed to blow up in her face. “It was very nasty. It was made to disfigure me, but it could easily have killed me as well.”
She said she was “terribly indebted” to the man who spotted the bomb, Harry Hirons, who called the police after he spotted a wire through a perforated hole in the package. Mrs Knight, an outspoken Right-winger who has often attacked society’s “do-good-ers,” . said she could only assume that the Irish Republican Army was responsible.
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Press, 27 March 1981, Page 5
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