'I was appalled'- MP tells victims

Mr Robert Chichester-Clark, MP For Londonderry, on Saturday visited the village of Claudy and Altnagelvin Hospital where he spent two hours with the patients who were injured when three car bombs wrecked the pleasant little village on Monday last week.

Mr Chichester-Clark said: "I was a but glad to have seen the situation for myself. By what I saw in both Claudy and in hospital, I was overcome with a desire to confront the people who did this dastardly crime with the suffering pain and anguish which they caused, though I would doubt if it would register with them."

Adding that he had also visited many of the people who had been bereaved. Mr Chichester-Clark said: "I found among both Protestants and Catholics a common horror and shared understanding of each other's grief.

"The one thing which these murders didn't wish to achieve is that they have now knit the two sections of the community together more closely than ever before."

Mr Chichester-Clark, who was accompanied by Mr R Bond, also visited policemen who were injured in Londonderry and are still patients in Altnagelvin Hospital.