Death of Ian Gow - Prime Minister shown car wreckage

Title

Death of Ian Gow - Prime Minister shown car wreckage

Genre

News report

TX Date

30 Jul 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:00:29

Description

Simon Israel reports form outside murdered Conservative MP, Ian Gow’s home in Hankham, East Sussex. He details how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spent an hour comforting Gow’s wife Jane after being shown the wreckage of the car left by the IRA bomb that killed him on 30/07/90. Thatcher issued a warning to other politicians.

Contributors

Simon Israel

Keywords

Deaths; Motor vehicles; Margaret Thatcher; Terrorism; Cars; IRA; Members of Parliament; Prime ministers; Security; Personal safety; Bombs; Visits; Explosions; East Sussex; Widows; Ian Gow; Jane Gow; Hankham

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