McCrea was a member of the Shankill Defence Association and in 1971 he was convicted of riotous behaviour in Dungiven . In 1975 he led a prayer service at the paramilitary funerals of Wesley Somerville and Harris Boyle . The two terrorists were part of the Glenanne gang which carried out the Miami Showband killings and were accidentally blown up when the bomb they were planting in the band 's minibus went off prematurely , killing them instantly . McCrea was the target of a parcel bomb to his home on 9 August 1988 , when a package sent by the Irish People 's Liberation Organisation was disarmed . McCrea had become suspicious when he noticed the package had a Dublin postmark
Miami Showband killings
Miami Showband killings
William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown