In memory of a daughter killed by IRA. Father relives bomb blast in City

exactly a year ago.

Danielle Carter, 15, was among those who died. Her younger sister

Christiane, then just eight, suffered terrible cuts to her face and

chest from flying glass.

Mr Danny Carter and his family will lay their wreath at the spot where

Danielle died. It will be the first time Christiane has been back.

The Warrington blast last month devastated the family, knowing the

pain the families of Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry would be going

through.

''I lost my daughter, but they didn't stop and I don't see them

stopping now,'' Mr Carter said.

''Every time a bomb goes off, every time someone gets hurt, I feel

more anger, more bitterness.''

The IRA chose the night after the General Election to explode its

largest mainland bomb.

Mr Carter, 44, was walking up from an underground car park after

delivering a car to the offices where he works as a chauffeur.

Danielle, Christiane, and other friends were waiting in a Mercedes car

outside the Baltic Exchange building to pick him up when the 100lb bomb

packed into a van exploded. ''The memory is with me all the time. It is

videoed in my mind step by step,'' he said.

''The shock wave from the blast blew me backwards. I ran up the ramp

and saw the loading bay was blown to bits. I ran through the dust and

rubble, choking, hysterical, glass under my feet, debris still falling

around me, a terrible smell of smoke, of burning.

''It was deadly quiet for a split second then I started hearing the

sirens, the screaming, people shouting 'help, help', me shouting

'Danielle, Danielle', police officers calling 'over here', more sirens,

others shouting 'get people out'.''

He said the car was obliterated, blown to bits. ''All I could think of

was the kids and then I saw Christiane and the others smothered in

blood. ''I shouted 'Danielle, Danielle' and ran round the car and found

her, lying half out of the car, face down in a pool of blood.''

At the time, he thought she was unconscious. In the chaos that

followed, it was six hours before he learned his daughter was dead.

The couple have two boys Nicky, 15, and Robbie, 12.

He would like to meet the families of the two boys who died in

Warrington. ''For the first six weeks, everyone is round, trying to

help. Then the doors close and that's when your grieving really starts.

''Noone knows how you feel. Part of your life is taken away.

''We sent a card to Johnathan's family and Christiane got a get well

card to send to Tim but he didn't make it.''

He could not understand how Mr Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie

died in the Enniskillen massacre, could meet the terrorists.

''There is no way I could sit opposite those people. I would have to

have a sixinch steel barrier between us and I would still try and get at

them.

''Johnathan and Tim's families talk of their hope that their children

will become symbols of peace. I can't accept that. I can't accept that

Danielle should have been sacrificed. I feel such anger, such

bitterness.''

Mr Carter, who lives in Laindon, Essex, had narrowly escaped injury 10

months earlier when an IRA bomb exploded in the doorway of the Carlton

Club in St James's in Piccadilly.

He was standing opposite the club with two other chauffeurs. The

windows around them shattered but the glass front directly behind them

held firm. ''We would have been cut to ribbons if it had gone too, it

was fate,'' he said.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain called for an end to

violence and greater regard for human life.

Referring to the child victims of the Warrington bomb, Cardinal Basil

Hume said their deaths may not be in vain.

He also spoke of the nation's shock at the death of twoyearold James

Bulger in Liverpool.

''Our thoughts must now turn from the evil that has been done to the

good that should ensue,'' he said during his Easter address at

Westminster Cathedral.