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Father fears revenge Press Association

The father of Warrington bomb victim Tim Parry has cancelled a television campaign to persuade Americans to stop contributing to the IRA because of fear of reprisals.

Colin Parry had planned to make and appeal on US television but was told by police that he and his family could be a risk if they succeeded in disrupting IRA fund-raising.

The were warned that the IRA could target members of the family in revenge attacks.

"I realised I had to change my mind when I found myself checking under my car each morning," he said.

"Obviously I must think of my family - they must come first."

As reported in the Belfast Telegraph on Saturday, he and his wife Wendy travelled to America as part of a televised journey to try to find a reason for the tragic death of their 12-year-old son in the bomb six months ago, which also killed three-year-old Jonathan Ball.

But in the States they were refused an interview with NORAID, the pro-IRA Irish Northern Aid Committee.

Mr and Mrs Parry, whose journey to Boston, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic is documented in BBC1's Panorama broadcast tonight, also asked Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams for a televised interview.

Captured

The request was declined and the Parry's refused to meet privately because they were not prepared to have a "mumbled apology from the likes of Gerry Adams over the mistakes of Warrington"."

"I wanted his (Gerry Adams's) eyes to be captured. I wanted the man's face to be seen when we put the question to him that we would have put to him," he told a London news conference.

The couple, who last week marked what would have been Tim's 13th birthday with a special family trip to his grave, talked to Catholics and Protestants in Ireland about their view of the violence.

Loathing

They also met Irish President Mary Robinson and Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie was killed in the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 and who had a controversial encounter with the IRA in April.

"We wanted to try and discover what could make individual men and women so filled with hate and loathing that they could become so inhuman as to put a bomb in a bin and kill two young children," he explained.
