Anger over Bobby Sands death-bed memorial claim

Bobby Sands' son Robert Gerald holds his mother's hand at the funeral of his father Bobby in west Belfast flanked by Masked IRA men. Picture by Martin Wright

By Stephen Gordon and Christopher Woodhouse

The bed in which IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands died has been preserved inside the Maze Prison, a top BBC journalist has claimed.

Veteran reporter Peter Taylor talks in sombre tones about Sands’ death while sitting on the bed for his film Who Won The War? which is to be screened tonight.