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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rhiannon James

MP calls for ‘statutory protection’ for British soldiers following Clonoe ruling

British soldiers should be given protections in law, a Conservative former minister has said following a ruling that SAS soldiers were not justified in killing four IRA members in a 1992 ambush.

Sir David Davis said he found it hard to imagine a “more clear cut case which allows firing without challenge” than in the Clonoe incident and described the coroner’s ruling as “demonstrably wrong”.

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