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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Cate McCurry

Use of force in killing of four IRA men ‘not justified’ – coroner

Relatives of the victims and their legal teams have continued the fight for the deceased (PA) - (PA Archive)

Members of a specialist British military unit who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force which was not justified, a coroner has ruled.

Northern Ireland’s presiding coroner, Mr Justice Michael Humphreys, found that the SAS soldiers did not have an honest belief in the necessity of using lethal force and that it was unjustified and not reasonable.

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