A former government minister has hit out after a wreath was laid at the spot where two IRA bombers blew themselves up 20 years ago.
Frankie Ryan and Patricia Black died on November 15 1991 when the bomb they intended to let off at a military band's concert in St Albans, Hertfordshire, detonated early.
It was reported last week that Black's family intended to travel to St Albans to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.
Police confirmed that a wreath had been laid in the doorway next to the venue where the bomb went off.
A Hertfordshire Police spokesman said: "We are aware the laying of a wreath took place in St Albans on Saturday morning. There were no issues for police to deal with."
Ryan, 25, and Black, 18, had intended to let the bomb off as the Blues and Royals military band played at the Alban Arena.
One civilian was injured in the attack but the only fatalities were IRA volunteers Black, from Belfast, and Ryan, who was brought up by Irish parents in Essex.
Peter Lilley, who was the Conservative MP for the city and secretary of state for trade and industry at the time, said the decision to lay a wreath was "grotesque and an insult to the people of St Albans".
He said: "I lived just a couple hundred of yards from where the bomb went off but wasn't in when the explosion took place. Police cordoned off the area and you could see the damage they would have done. It would have been a massacre.
"It's wrong for these people to raise it again and glorify it in this way."
