00:00For the next four years after the bomb,
00:04this is where one places where I would come.
00:09I would come and play the piano.
00:12And the piano was a way of expressing all sorts of feelings.
00:21Patrick Magee was convicted of the terrorist bombing
00:25and sentenced to 35 years in prison.
00:29He thought he would be in jail for the rest of his natural life.
00:33But just 14 years later, he was controversially released
00:37under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
00:47I think I was in denial about the whole thing then and didn't want to know.
00:52I think I'm just remembering seeing a photo
00:56and just looking and trying to see some sensitivity there
01:00or some remorse, and there clearly wasn't any.
01:13Well, I have to say that I knew I was going to be in jail for a long time.
01:19I certainly didn't expect to be released after 14 years,
01:23and it was 14 years to the day.
01:27I felt I had gained years.
01:29I expected to get out in sort of early middle age,
01:32so I got out before I was 50, and that's a good feeling.
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