Legacy Act: ‘I never believed I’d get justice,’ says man whose pregnant wife was killed by bomb in 1975

Husband speaks for first time about UVF attack which snatched young family away from him as legacy legislation ends prospect of prosecutions

Tom Bowen at his home in Killyliss, near Dungannon (Pic: Peter Morrison)

Allison Morris

Carefully preserved in a storage container are the memories of a past life, wedding pictures of an attractive young couple surrounded by family and friends on the happiest of days, along with newspaper clippings of the unspeakable tragedy that followed.

The groom, Patrick Thomas Bowen, known as Tom, appeared to have it all. Aged just 24 he owned his own butcher’s shop and a considerable plot of land, along with a home where he intended to raise a family with his beautiful bride Marian (21).

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