JEREMY Corbyn is pushing for a law change that could hand pensions to terrorists.
The Labour leader has put his name to an amendment to the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) bill.
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It demands a pension for all “seriously injured victims of Troubles-related incidents”.
But critics say the loosely-worded clause would allow terrorists to claim handouts alongside the very same British taxpayers they had tried to kill and maim.
Lawyer Matthew Jury, who represents the families of the 1982 Hyde Park bombings, said: “What this means is that even the IRA terrorist who blew off his fingers building his bombs is entitled to a pension.
“By the back-door, taxpayers will be paying terrorists a state-funded pension.
“And it means that terrorists’ own victims, as taxpayers, will be forced to finance the retirement of the very people who took their limbs, their loved ones and their lives. Corbyn must know this and it’s monstrous.”
Corbyn’s amendment is also backed by fellow Labour MPs Karin Smyth, Tony Lloyd and Nick Brown.
The wide-ranging bill is now under scrutiny from the Lords – where critics hope the amendment will fall.
Mr Jury said the amendment followed years of Sinn Fein pushing an “agenda” in Northern Ireland.
He added: “These attempts to create a moral equivalence between terrorists and their victims and terrorists and British soldiers has to stop. “There is none.
“Terrorists in Northern Ireland willingly and actively engaged in violence. Their victims did not.”
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