£121,000 for Hyde Park victim's daughter

THE daughter of a soldier who was killed in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing has been awarded a further £121,500 in damages at the Court of Appeal.

- By Callum Parke

Sarah Jane Young was four when she heard the explosion near the Knightsbridge barracks in Central London which killed her father, Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young.

Following the blast, she saw soldiers return to the barracks covered in blood, and told her mother that, “Daddy should be coming now”. L/Cpl Young, who was 19, died of his injuries the day after the blast.