IRA member faces civil action over Hyde Park bombing

A convicted IRA terrorist will face a civil action next October after families of the Hyde Park bombing victims launched claims for damages against him. John Downey, 66, was due to stand trial at the Old Bailey in 2014 for the atrocity which killed four Household Cavalry soldiers and seven horses and injured 31 people in July 1982. They were killed when a bomb packed with 25lbs of nails, hidden in a blue Morris Marina and detonated by a remote…