Victim’s family criticise scope of inquest into Guildford pub bombings deaths

The Horse and Groom pub in Guildford in 1974 after the attack by the IRA. Photograph: PA

Relatives of one of the five victims of the IRA’s 1974 Guildford pub bombings have criticised the scope of the inquest into the deaths and said they have “unanswered questions” after a coroner delivered a verdict of unlawful killing.

At the conclusion of the inquest, coroner Richard Travers said the victims were killed by a “violent, intense and devastating” explosion caused by a remotely-detonated bomb planted by “a young man and woman often referred to as a ‘courting couple’”.