Soldiers Referred to Prosecution Service Over 1991 SAS ‘Kill Zone’

A coroner who oversaw an inquest into the deaths of three IRA men who were killed in an SAS ambush in 1991 has referred several soldiers to Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS). Last week Mr. Justice Humphreys, the presiding coroner for Northern Ireland, ruled the SAS soldiers were “justified” in using “lethal force” during the confrontation in Coagh, County Tyrone. But he says criminal acts may have been committed in the planning of the operation and in the aftermath of the shooting. He has referred four soldiers—referred to only as Soldiers M, N, E and F—to the PPS over the planning of the operation and two others, Soldiers E and U, over the destruction of a video of the ambush....