How anti-fascists bombed Warrington and killed two children

Twenty-nine years ago today, IRA terrorists planting two bombs in Warrington’s shopping centre. The bombs were deliberately placed in cast-iron litter bins – almost certainly by far-left ‘antifascists’ from the ‘Red Action’ organisation who carried out IRA missions – so as to cause large amounts of deadly shrapnel.

Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene; 12-year-old Tim Parry died from his injuries in hospital five days later.

H&D provided research assistance for a BBC progamme in 2013 which examined the likelihood that Red Action ‘antifascists’ had carried out the bombings.

Red Action had a long history of involvement both with violent ‘antifascism’ and with Irish republican terrorism.

Its leaders were based in Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington constituency and regularly used Corbyn’s constituency office for their meetings. (This was some years before Corbyn became Labour Party leader.)

Red Action leader Patrick Hayes and fellow ‘anti-fascist’ thug Jan Taylor were eventually given 30-year jail sentences for their role in an IRA bombing campaign, including a bomb at the Harrods store in Knightsbridge.

Another RA activist Liam Heffernan was given a 23-year-jail sentence for stealing explosives on behalf of another republican terror group, the INLA.