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The two soldiers were dragged from their car on west Belfast's Andersonstown Road by mourners attending the funeral of Caoimhn Mac Brdaigh, one of three people killed by loyalist Michael Stone at Milltown cemetery a few days previously. Father Reid knew all three Savage had been an altar boy at Clonard and met the coffins in Dublin. childList: true, } Wood had been shot six times and stabbed four times, as well as suffering multiple lesser wounds. In November 1998, Murphy and Maguire were released from the Maze prison as part of the early prisoner release scheme under theGood Friday Agreement. premium_content: false, The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Tom King) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the recent killings in Northern Ireland, and especially on the murders of two soldiers in Belfast on Saturday 19 March. Corporals David Howes and Derek Wood who were murdered in 1988. Priest reveals details of soldiers' murders. The film, showing the soldiers being stripped and beaten before being shot, was broadcast in spite of a Northern Ireland judge's order that the footage should be used only during trials and should not be copied. Relief for homebuyers as bill slashing Stamp Duty until 2025 is passed by the Lords and will become law. "We were shown into a nice room and were shown the footage we needed, then they said 'Now you've seen it, you can't have it'. The incident was famously captured in all its horrific detail by a British army helicopter with a live heli-teli feed to a 10-inch screen in a nearby police/army control room. Maguire became a member of the IRA's "camp staff" in the Maze, one of the senior IRA men effectively in control of the republican wings, and met Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam when she visited the jail to negotiate with prisoners. } They were jailed for life in 1989, with a recommendation of a minimum 25 years. No one said a word. window.IMP = window.IMP || {}; One of them was carrying a pass which bore the name Herford. There they were shot several times. Police are reviewing footage following a paramilitary-style funeral in west Belfast for an IRA man convicted of killing two corporals in 1988. return 'none'; Mourners at the funeral said they believed they were under attack fromUlster loyalists. 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Fine GaelleaderAlan Dukes,LabourleaderDick SpringandTaoiseachCharlie Haugheyall condemned the killings. Terence Clarke, the chief steward on the day, was sentenced to seven years for assaulting Corporal Wood. [2][11][14] A search revealed that the men were British Army soldiers. 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According to the BBC and The Independent the men were also tortured. if (window.GTMLoaded === true) { and next thing someone came in, picked me up and said Get up or Ill f*****g well shoot you as well. And then he said Take him away, and two of them came and kind of manoeuvred me out.. }; They were jailed for life in 1989, with a recommendation of a minimum 25 years. Describing his conviction as manifestly unjust, it called on the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Sir Patrick Mayhew, to exercise his discretion and release him. vars.category.regionals = selectedRegional || ''; } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('premium') > -1) { Murphy, a father-of-four, died last Thursday and hundreds gathered on the Falls Road yesterday as a coffin draped in the Irish tricolour was carried from his home. "He excelled in hurling and Gaelic football and boxing at Immaculata. One was in the Armys West Belfast control room and watched live feed of the unfolding murders the stuff of nightmares beamed from the camera of an Air Corps surveillance helicopter overhead. return 'premium-plus'; Published: 01:37 GMT, 16 March 2013 | Updated: 01:37 GMT, 16 March 2013. It was at best a semi-fiction, which was maintained even to the mens families. document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "= ; path=/;domain=" + domain + ";expires = Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"; The officer recalled that because of the republican funeral, an out of bounds area had been issued for everybody, but that fatally the corporals strayed into the box. they just lay there totally still and I decided then to myself that these must be soldiers. He said Murphy was unrepentant, adding that he "never tried to sanitise his involvement in the liberation struggle". ","articleBody":"Police are reviewing footage following a paramilitary-style funeral in west Belfast for an IRA man convicted of killing two corporals in 1988. The car headed straight towards the front of the funeral, which was headed by several black taxis. Television pictures showed the crowd surging back, with some of them attacking the vehicle with a wheel-brace and a stepladder snatched from a photographer. The two men were driven less than 200 yards to waste ground near Penny Lane (South Link), just off the main Andersonstown Road. document.body.addEventListener('fp_user_event', function (event) { let cookieValue = parts.join('='); But in West Belfast it was mistaken for Hereford, the HQ of the hated SAS, which had so recently killed the IRA team on Gibraltar. }; script.async = true; // Stop listening for mutations once we know this listener has been registered. return key.indexOf('granted_by_') > -1; }; } For a ghastly half-hour the mask slipped. The views and opinions expressed in this post / documentary are soley intended to educate and provide background information to those interested in the Troubles of Northern Ireland. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The murders of the two corporals In 1988 alone there were a total of 105 conict-related deaths. Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. . At the centre of the maelstrom on the day they died was an extraordinary figure; the local missionary priest, Father Reid, who was in fact privy to so much secret, high-level peace negotiation that the head of the IRAs Belfast brigade nicknamed him Behind the Scenes. Pressure increased on all sides for a way out of the violence, and warring factions began to emerge in the republican movement. }; I had failed. But there were hardliners who wanted to pull off a spectacular as the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Troubles approached. Once we confirmed who they were, they were immediately executed. And there was a support unit called 12 Int, from which the two corporals came. return 'premium'; const listenForFlipPayEvents = function () { They were stripped of most of their clothing and they lay in their own blood in the back of the taxi when you took them to the waste ground to be killed, and in that pitiable and defenceless state you brought about their murders as they lay on the ground. Indeed, after their murders on March 19 at Bradys funeral the Army said they had merely been engaged in routine maintenance work on a transmitter. Superintendent Lorraine Dobson said: "An evidence-gathering operation was in place. j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'? document.cookie = subscriberCookieName + "=" + JSON.stringify(cookieData) + ';path=/;domain=' + domain + ';max-age='+cookieExpiryInSeconds; There was no one else there, just the two bodies. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. !gigyaID ? Terence Clarke, the chief steward on the day, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for assaulting Corporal Wood. They were surrounded by hundreds of people, got boxed in and overwhelmed. I was very shocked. Both men had been listed as senior members of the IRAsBelfast Brigade. We were all very, very angry that night. if (!! The judge who could bring about the fall of Tony Blair, Corporals' killers are released from Maze, Parliamentary report on Community restorative Justice, http://republican-news.org/archive/1997/June26/20case.html, Judges free man jailed over IRA funeral murders. On 2 August 1988, Lance-Corporal Roy Butler of the Ulster Defence Regiment was shot and killed in Belfast with one of the guns taken from the corporals. A few yards away, out of frame, lies the corpse of a colleague, similarly abused and then slaughtered. "But that is not to say that Alec had no other focus because we know he had many," he said. The funeral procession, dedicated to the victims of the Milltown Cemetery attack (who were killed at a funeral by loyalist Michael Stone), was interrupted by the arrival of two . }); The out-of-uniform soldiers were killed after driving a car into the funeral procession of an IRA member. Around 15 men in the funeral parade wore berets, sunglasses and black jackets bearing the symbol of the Provisional IRA's D Company 2nd Battalion. I must remind the House of the background and sequence . He said Murphy was 12 when he heard "gun battles raging on the streets", referring to the Falls Road curfew in July 1970. }; A further three men were in 1990 found guilty by common purpose of aiding and abetting the murder. } const subscriberCookieName = 'subscriber'; On March 6, 1988, the three members of the IRA active service unit chosen to perform the attack Danny McCann, Sen Savage and Mairad Farrell were intercepted on the Rock and shot dead by members of the SAS. They were under-armed. A police Land Rover fitted with a camera was present as the funeral cortege proceeded to St Peter's Cathedral. There they were shot several times. Corporals David Howes and Derek Wood who were murdered in 1988 THE conviction of a senior republican for one of the most high-profile double killings of the Troubles was secured with the help. 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Wood, clearly holding a handgun, half climbs out of his own window but is grabbed from behind by several men and pulled down and out of sight. Reid knew that IRA operations had to be reined in if real progress was to be made towards peace. Mac Brdaighs funeral, just three days after Stones attack, took place amid an extremely fearful and tense atmosphere, those attending being in trepidation of another loyalist attack. He was released after 10 years under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and immediately reported back to D Company. I felt I had done my best to save them. Believing the soldiers were loyalists intent on repeating Stone's attack, dozens of people surrounded and attacked their car. A Roman Catholic priest kneels in a car park as he administers the last rites over the bloodied and almost naked body of a British soldier. subscriptionFinishDate: '1111-11-11T11:11:11Z', The men (Pat Kane, Mickey Timmons, and Sen Ceallaigh) were dubbed the "Casement Three" by Republicans who disputed the validity of their convictions. } } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('epaper-access') > -1) { This week Father Reid also spoke for the first time, to the BBC, about his courageous attempts to save two lives. A Room With A View star Julian Sands, 65, is missing in Californian mountain range: Urgent search is under No one likes a complainer! }); They were jailed for life in 1989, with a recommendation of a minimum 25 years. Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter. . if (vars.article.wallType === 'premium') { Corporal Wood was shot six times, twice in the head and four times in the chest. Alex Murphy (61) received a life sentence along with Hugh Maguire for killing Royal Signals corporals Derek Wood (24) and David Howes (23). document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. A man is on the VWs roof smashing the windscreen with a wheel brace. Television pictures showed the crowd surging back, with some of them attacking the vehicle with a wheel-brace and a stepladder snatched from a photographer. He and others begin to try to haul Corporal Howes out. Fear and hatred soared in republican West Belfast, and reached a peak two days later when Kevin Bradys funeral took place. subscriptionFinishDate: '0000-00-00T00:00:00Z', Kevin McNamara, Labour Northern Ireland spokesman, has called for the three cases to be reopened. . The corporals killings was the killing of British Army corporals David Howes and Derek Wood by the Provisional IRA on 19 March 1988 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. if (vars.article.wallType === 'registration') { One man ideally placed to play a role was Father Reid, a priest based at the Clonard monastery in West Belfast, with which the family of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams had close links. Three days before, loyalist Michael Stone had attacked an IRA funeral and killed three people. The crowd briefly scatters before surging forward again. Their parent unit was the Royal Corps of Signals. Mac Brdaigh's funeral, just three days after Stone's attack, took place amid an extremely fearful and tense atmosphere, those attending being in trepidation of another loyalist attack. The Army has never let us meet anyone from Dereks unit.. Howes and Wood were beaten, stripped to their underwear and executed by. Clarke had served asGerry Adams bodyguard; he died of cancer in 2000. He was only saved from lynching by police intervention. But it portrayed many events leading to the killings and showed one gunman, who has never been charged, making his. } return 'home-delivery'; subscriptionStatus: 'Corporate', } else if (Object.keys(p.badge || {}).indexOf('print_annual') > -1) { The men (Pat Kane, Mickey Timmons, and Sen Ceallaigh) were dubbed the Casement Three by republicans who disputed the validity of their convictions. And the next thing I realise they had put them over a low wall.. "[5] Conservative MP Michael Mates nonetheless defended the "hands off" policy, saying "A return to heavy-handed policing could provoke riots, which is what the IRA want so they can say to the world 'They won't even let us bury our dead in peace. Change). The second factor is that they were not [SAS] and did not have training to extricate themselves. . When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. window.showSubscriberElements(); The film, which included harrowing footage of the . } subtree: true, THE conviction of a senior republican for one of the most high-profile double killings of . The film shows, however, that the priest was led away not by Kane but by another man. The softest of soft military targets was chosen. } catch (e) { There was a helicopter circling overhead and I dont know why they didnt do something, why they didnt radio to the police or the soldiers to come up. Allison Morris. "Police will now review all evidence gathered and, if any offences are detected, a police investigation will be carried out.". The soldiers were then dragged from the car, beaten, and taken to nearby waste ground where they were stripped and shot dead. "Effectively the judge in the trial became a witness himself, because he could see what was presented in front of him.". subscriptionStartDate: '', script.src = flipPayJsUrl; On 6 March 1988, three unarmed IRA members preparing for a bomb attack on the band of theRoyal Anglian Regimentwere killed by members of theSpecial Air Service(SAS) inGibraltarduringOperation Flavius. vars.article.wallVisible = ! Their best hope was to kick their way into a nearby building like a shop that had restricted approaches, and wait for the cavalry to arrive. const cookieExpiryInSeconds = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30; The Mac Brdaigh funeral was making its way along the Andersonstown Road towards Milltown Cemetery when the car containing the two corporals appeared. On that day there was a handover. Film footage then shows it reversing across a junction before becoming boxed in by the black taxis in the cortege. News coverage of the funeral became central to the investigation of the corporals' killings although many broadcast networks refused to hand footage over to detectives, saying it would put journalists' lives at risk. const bundleValue = getBundleValue(purchase, 'purchase'); At the garden of remembrance, where members of the unit are honoured, the coffin was saluted by those wearing uniforms during a minute's silence. THE conviction of a senior republican for one of the most high-profile double killings of the Troubles was secured with the help of news footage obtained by the girlfriend of a French police officer, a new book has claimed. The two men were driven less than 200 yards to waste ground near Penny Lane (South Link), just off the main Andersonstown Road. The murders of Wood and Howes were the culmination of a fortnight of mayhem during which blood had fed blood. Kane also allegedly admitted bundling a priest from the scene, saying: 'I lifted the priest by the shoulder and started heading for the gates.' window.showSubscriberElements = true; item_group_code: "bel001", A frenzied mob dragged the soldiers from their car, beat them. Brutality: Catholic priest Father Alec Reid administers the last rights to Corporal David Howes, one of two British soldiers brutally beaten and murdered in Belfast 25 years ago, No one who saw the harrowing photographs or film footage of the deaths of Corporals Derek Wood and David Howes in Belfast 25 years ago next week can ever erase the memory. Their unpoliced funerals in BelfastsMilltown Cemeteryon 16 March were attacked byUlster Defence Association(UDA) memberMichael Stonewith pistols and hand grenades, in what became known as theMilltown Cemetery attack. The funerals were held at the Milltown Cemetery, off the Falls Road, on March 16. 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