Cancer-stricken King Charles will be feeling fresh heartache after a former IRA commander confessed to being behind the bomb plot which killed his beloved great-uncle Dickie, it has been revealed today.
Michael Hayes callously boasted that he designed the explosive device that killed Lord Mountbatten, and masterminded the atrocity Read MoreEXCLUSIVE I masterminded the plot to blow up Lord Mountbatten: Ex-IRA commander sensationally confesses to being behind the assassination of King Charles's beloved great-uncle who was murdered aged 79 during a holiday at his summer home in Ireland The 1979 bombing also killed Lord Mountbatten's grandson Nicholas, 14, Nicholas' grandmother Doreen Brabourne, 83, and crewman Paul Maxwell, 15, of Enniskillen.
Mr Fitzwilliams said that despite the pain and anguish Hayes' comments will have brought up, the King would want to focus on the progress the monarchy has helped Ireland's peace process to achieve As Buckingham Palace declined to comment, Ian Paisley Jr, the Democratic Unionist Party MP for North Antrim in Ulster, called for the Garda Síochána, the police service in the Republic of Ireland, to 'immediately' investigate Hayes.
Legal experts this weekend told the MoS that Hayes's admission made him liable for prosecution for the murders. Pictured: Part of the wreakage of Lord Mountbattens boat the Shadow V, circa August 1979 Asked if he was saying that he was the man who designed the bomb, he boasted: 'Yes, I blew him up. McMahon put it on his boat ... I planned everything, I am commander in chief. '
Hayes confirmed to the MoS that he was also in County Sligo at the time of the bombing, adding: 'Francis McGirl made a b******s of it. I blew up Earl Mountbatten in Sligo, but I had a justification, he'd come to my country... Look at the Famine … are we to forget that? The Black and Tans? He came to my country and murdered my people and I fought back. I hit them back.'
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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