Politician Airey Neave was assassinated in Westminster in 1979 - how was the killing carried out?
Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon grandson of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, of the Neave baronets, and his first wife Dorothy Middleton, on 29 December 1942. They had three children: Diana Neave was created Baroness Airey of Abingdon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxford, on 6 August 1979, a few months after her husband - a British Tory Member of Parliament - was killed in an attack by the Irish National Liberation Army using a car-bomb in the Palace of Westminster on 30 March 1979. Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (7 July 1919 – 27
Assassination of Airey Neave Assassination of Airey Neave On 30 March 1979 the Irish National Liberation Army mortally wounded Airey Neave, the British Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with a bomb fixed under his car which detonated in the Palace of Westminster car park in London. Neave subsequently died of his injuries. The Irish National Liberation Army, and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party, was formed at a meeting in a Dublin hotel in December 1974. In 1975 it began carrying out a paramilitary campaign in Northern Ireland on British Government facilities and officials with the strategic objective of removing