THE parents of a woman killed in the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks have welcomed the death of Osama Bin Laden – but say it still won’t bring their daughter back.

Sonia and Peter Hopwood of West Bay lost their 50-year-old daughter Dinah, who was killed with her fiancée Neil Cudmore, on September 11, 2001.

The Hopwoods said although it was good news that the Al Qaeda figurehead was dead, their grief was as sharp now as it was 10 years ago.

Mr Hopwood said: “If his death stops him organising any further tragedies then it is a good thing it has happened.

“We agree with the American president’s view that justice has been done but it is certainly not the end.

“We don’t understand their way of life at all. I don’t think it is possible to understand what makes them act in the way they do.”

Mrs Hopwood added: “You can’t help feeling the world is a better place without him but it is not just one man and it certainly is not the end.

“There is no such thing as closure. We feel just the same now as we did 10 years ago as far as our loss is concerned, that doesn’t change.

“But as far as the general worldwide picture it is good.”

Dinah was the advertising manager of Risk magazine and Neil its vice-president of marketing.

They were just at the World Trade Centre for the day giving a presentation to a financial technology conference.

The conference started at 8.30am and the couple were on time and on the 106th floor of the North tower when the first plane hit at 8.45. None of the 16 magazine employees survived.

Since the disaster the two families have become very close – with Neil’s brother Keith moving into the couple’s Netherbury home, near sister Jo, who lives in Waytown. Neil’s father Jim Cudmore said: “I welcome the news but I don’t celebrate the death.

“I think to do so effectively puts me in the same bracket as the terrorists themselves.

“I am very pleased he has been brought to justice, it does at least lay to rest the victims.

“But I think we must not lose sight of the fact that Al Qaeda would probably not have been able to achieve the success it did in terms of terrorist attacks without substantial backing from financiers in the middle east and they have not been brought to account and I doubt they ever will be.”

FORMER Bridport mayor Daphne Mundy told of her relief and concerns after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Mrs Mundy’s son Rupert Stebbins and daughter-in-law Lala were near the World Trade Centre when the terrorists struck.

Mr Stebbins was a Wall Street Street banker, and his wife was at a cookery school nearby and saw the second plane crash into the skyscraper.

Mrs Mundy, who lives in Bridport, said: “It is going to stir up a lot of sad memories for people.

“I just hope there is no retaliation. It might open a can of worms.”

She added: “I must admit that I thought ‘thank goodness’ when I first heard.”

Mrs Mundy’s son and daughter-in-law lived in Manhattan at the time but now live in Colombia.

Others from Bridport who saw the aftermath of the terror attacks were new bride Katharine Wilkinson, nee Hurdley, and rock star PJ Harvey.

Katherine watched the towers collapse from just a mile and a half away. Miss Harvey was in Washington when a jet blew up the Pentagon.