An inquest into the 1987 deaths at Loughgall cannot finish before the legacy deadline, coroner says.
There is not enough time for a new inquest into the deaths of eight IRA men and a civilian shot dead by the SAS because a Troubles case deadline is coming into force, a coroner has said.The corner said the inquest would take six months to complete.
Anthony Hughes, a civilian who was travelling through the village in a car at the time, was also shot dead.The Northern Ireland Troubles Act will halt future inquests and civil cases which have not concluded by 1 May 2024. "There are other cases listed, other cases indeed similar in nature to this that are listed and stand a prospect of being completed by 1 May," said the MoD's barrister.
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