Lord Tebbit said yesterday that Patrick Magee, the Brighton bomber, was "in the same category" as the people who kidnapped and beheaded Kenneth Bigley.

Tebbit - who was injured in the Grand Hotel blast and whose wife Margaret was paralysed - told Radio Ulster: "I would put him in the same category as the people who recently murdered Mr Bigley and those who murdered large numbers of people in Bali - psychopathic killers who would kill again if they had the chance."