Use of lethal force in killing of four IRA men by SAS soldiers was not justified, High Court rules
Use of lethal force in killing of four IRA men by SAS soldiers was not justified, High Court rules
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Members of a specialist British military unit used lethal force that was not justified in the killing of four IRA men in a 1992 ambush, a High Court judge has ruled. Four Provisional IRA members - Kevin Barry O'Donnell, 21, Sean O'Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 - were shot and killed on 16 February 1992 at St Patrick's Church in Clonoe, Co Tyrone. Northern Ireland's presiding coroner, Mr Justice Michael Humphreys, found that the Specialist Military Unit soldiers who shot them did not have an honest belief in the necessity of using lethal force and that it was unjustified and not reasonable.
The four IRA men were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station. The RUC was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001 and it played a major role in the Troubles between the 1960s and the 1990s. The special forces opened fire as the men arrived at St Patrick's Church car park in a stolen lorry they had used in the police station attack.
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