While serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne, he was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who exploded a bomb under his car outside his home in East Sussex.
Будучи членом парламента от Истборна, был убит Временной ирландской республиканской армией (IRA), подложившей бомбу под его машину возле его дома в Восточном Суссексе.