Martin McGuinness (left in 1992 and pictured with Gerry Adams in January) was considered Britain's number one terrorist accused of ordering some of the IRA's most spectacular attacks across Ulster and on mainland UK. In an extraordinary journey he became a peacemaker politician and deputy first minister credited with securing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement to end decades of fighting in Northern Ireland. The Queen shared an historic handshake with him in 2012 (bottom left) even though he was believed to have helped order the murder of her cousin Lord Moutbatten in 1979. But Lord Tebbit, whose wife Margaret (together right) was permanently paralysed by the IRA's 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton (Lord Tebbit inset being pulled from the rubble) says McGuinness only sought peace to avoid being prosecuted for his IRA crimes. He said: 'The world is a sweeter place today. He was a coward who never atoned for his crimes. I hope he'll be parked in a particularly hot and unpleasant corner of hell for the rest of eternity.' Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine died in the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974, said today: 'With his death the truth is buried’ and her brother Brian said his death 'cleans the earth of another vile terrorist'.
