Tom Travers's 23-year-old daughter, Mary, was shot dead by two IRA gunmen as the family walked home from Mass in south Belfast in April 1984.
Mr Travers, a resident magistrate, was shot six times. One bullet is still lodged in his back. No one was convicted of his daughter's killing. He is opposed to paramilitaries being treated differently from other prisoners. "I believe my daughter should be of equal importance to this State as someone who was murdered in a non-terrorist event, but she isn't. I am being punished twice because her murder is being downgraded to some form of political act. I find that offensive and very hurtful."
He says he does not want vengeance, and is not even asking for prisoners to say sorry. But he believes they should be expected to say that what they did was wrong, and he is "appalled" that church leaders are not demanding this.
"My wish and prayer is that the people who shot Mary would be reconciled to God before they die. But I don't see how I am helping them if I say what they did was a political act and was not wrong." Mr Travers (69), who is still a magistrate, says that to be a victim is the most isolating experience anyone can have. For many years after the attack he had to attend Mass in an army barracks and he did not receive an offer of compensation for nearly six years.
He is not opposed to early releases as part of the general criminal justice system, but believes paramilitary groups were offered immunity from prosecution in 1994 in return for a promise to reduce violence.
"Statistics confirm that a private, secret immunity has been given. No one who committed an offence before 1994 has been charged with offences unless they also committed an offence after 1994. I don't believe the police are actively looking for them. They suddenly lost the ability to solve terrorist offences after the first so-called ceasefire."
The RUC says that the files remain open on all unsolved crimes.