PREM STAR’S ‘HERO McGUINNESS’ STORM
FORMER Tory Cabinet minister Norman Tebbit said he hopes Martin McGuinness is “parked in a particularly hot and unpleasant corner of hell for the rest of eternity”.
The peer, whose wife Margaret was paralysed when the IRA bombed a Brighton hotel during the 1984 Conservative Party conference, said the world is a “sweeter and cleaner” place now the ex-deputy first minister is dead.
Lord Tebbit insisted the former IRA commander, who died from a rare heart condition, only turned to peace to “save his skin”.
He said: “I’m just pleased that the world is a sweeter and cleaner place now. He was not only a multi-murderer, he was a coward.
“He knew that the IRA were defeated because British intelligence had penetrated right the way up to the Army Council and the end was coming.
“He decided the only thing was to opt for peace.
“He claimed to be a Roman Catholic. I hope that his beliefs turn out to be true and he’ll be parked in a particularly hot and unpleasant corner of hell for the rest of eternity.”
The bombing of the Grand Hotel killed five and left many injured.
Lord Tebbit said he refused to forgive because “forgiveness requires confession of sins and repentance”.