New tribute to M62 bomb victims

Dec 29 2008 by Neil Atkinson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

He added that the main driving force behind the project was to meet the wishes of the victims’ families – most notably Maureen Norton, the younger sister of 24-year-old soldier Terry Griffin who was killed in the blast.

The coach had been specially commissioned to carry British Army and RAF personnel on leave with their families to several bases, including Catterick, North Yorkshire, during strike action on the trains.

In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, the dead and injured were strewn over a 100-metre section of the motorway.

The IRA never claimed responsibility for the terror attack, although Judith Ward, a 25-year-old woman from Stockport, was convicted of 12 counts of murder.

However after the police investigation was exposed as flawed, she was released on appeal in 1992 and the true culprits have never been brought to justice.