The daughter of one of the victims of the Brighton bomb has met the IRA terrorist who planted it.

Jo Tuffnell's father Sir Anthony Berry, a Tory MP, was one of five people killed when the blast ripped through the Grand Hotel in 1984.

It was aimed at the Conservative government of the day, in Brighton for the party conference, and prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Last November Mrs Tuffnell came face-to-face with her father's killer, Patrick Magee, in Dublin.

Her move to find answers mirrors that of bomb victim Harvey Thomas, organiser of the Tories' 1984 conference, who also met the terrorist in Dublin last December.

Magee was released from prison after 14 years in jail in 1999 under the Good Friday agreement.

Mrs Tuffnell, who lives in north Wales, has since met him half a dozen times, and agreed to have their conversations televised by BBC2 for an Everyman programme.

The mother-of-three said of their first meeting: "We talked for three hours. He said, 'I want to hear everything you have to say. I want to hear your anger.' Then he said, 'I want to share what I've been through and why I did it'.

"It was a very emotional time for us both.

"He apologised at that first meeting and said he wanted to do everything he could to help the victims he has created.

"My sense is he felt that taking up violence had meant that he'd lost some of his humanity. Now, with the peace process happening, it was time to readdress the past and the harm that he'd caused."

Despite their meetings Mrs Tuffnell does not feel able to forgive her father's killer.

She said: "There's a lot of pressure on victims to forgive. I think that's wrong. Forgiveness sounds like something you do and then it's done. But for me it's a journey. I can only really forgive myself."

The programme will be broadcast on BBC2 on December 13.