Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station.
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.
An inquest into the circumstances of the killings, which opened in 2023, found that up to 570 rounds were fired by the soldiers. He said that no attempt was made by the soldiers to arrest any of the members of the IRA unit, even as they lay seriously injured and incapacitated either on the ground or in the cab of the lorry.
“This, coupled with any lack of proper challenge of their accounts by the RUC investigators, ensured there would be no actual accountability.” He also noted that despite evidence given by Colonel A that ambushes were not carried out in Northern Ireland, the terminology “ambush” appears frequently in both PSNI and MoD documents created after the event.Mr Justice Humphreys said that in his statement, Soldier F claimed he opened fire when he believed those in the lorry were about to open fire on the patrol.
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