Williamson applied for amnesty in 1995 from South Africa 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( TRC ) for bombing the London office of the ANC in March 1982 . In the British House of Commons in June 1995 , Peter Hain MP asked through the then Home Secretary , Michael Howard , that the British police should interview and consider extraditing Williamson to stand trial for the London bombing . The Home Secretary turned down Hain 's request . Amnesty was eventually granted by the TRC to Williamson and seven others on 15 October 1999 . Following the TRC hearing , South African lawyer Anton Alberts commented to the " woza " news agency : " If you look at the Lockerbie disaster - this is very similar . I think Britain would like to see these guys are prosecuted in England even though they get amnesty here . " Williamson ordered the assassination of Ruth First , who was an exiled campaigner for the Anti-Apartheid Movement , close friend of Sweden 's prime minister , Olof Palme , and the ANC author of a pioneering study of Namibia . She was also the wife of the South African Communist Party 's leader , Joe Slovo . She was killed by a letter-bomb in Maputo , Mozambique on 18 August 1982
bombing the London office
1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London
Craig Williamson