Appeal for end to 'punishment' attacks

Ronnie Hill died 13 years after the IRA bombing at Enniskillen

The widow of a man who died from his injuries 13 years after the IRA Remembrance Day bombing has called for an end so-called punishment beatings and shootings.

Speaking on BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Sequence, Noreen Hill said weapons were an "evil" influence on life in Northern Ireland.

Noreen Hill was by her comatose husband's side through 13 years

Her husband, Ronnie Hill, slipped into a coma two days after being injured in a bomb in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in November 1987.

He was the twelfth person to die as a result of injuries sustained in the blast in which 63 people were also injured.

Mr Hill, the former headmaster of Enniskillen High School, never regained consciousness.

Mrs Hill nursed him throughout those years.

"I would like to see arms and such out of the community. I would like to see the beatings and shootings all stopped," said Mrs Hill.

"I think until we get rid of all the evil, and you can only call arms and that evil.

"I should hope that my children won't ever get beaten up or kneecapped but it is happening here in Northern Ireland."