Gail McConnell was once a happy three-and-a-half-year-old, an only child, living with her parents off the Belmont Road, close to the Stormont Estate in Belfast. All changed on the morning of March 6, 1984. Two IRA members came to kill her 35-year-old father, Bill. He was a target because he worked as an assistant governor at The Maze Prison.  Gail and her mother, Beryl, were at the front door waving goodbye as he prepared to leave for work. He was doing his daily routine of checking the underside of his car for booby traps when the two gunmen shot him…

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