APPENDIX

Shoot to kill victims

A list of those shot dead by British Army and RUC, 
August 1982-December 1986

Name                Summary                     Date        Place
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Eamonn Bradley      Taken to wasteground by 
                    British soldiers and        25/8/82     Derry
                    shot in the head.
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Ron Brennan         Shot by RUC in course of 
                    post office robbery.        29/9/82     North
                    No shots fired at RUC.                  Belfast
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Gervaise McKerr     Shot dead by RUC in         1 1/11/82   Lurgan
Eugene Toman        planned ambush. 
Sean Burns          109 shots fired at car. 
                    Three RUC men charged with 
                    murder of Toman and acquitted 
                    by Judge Gibson who praised 
                    them for bringing the three 
                    IRA men to 'the final court 
                    of justice'.
                    Subsequent RUC cover-up.
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Michael Tighe       Shot by RUC in stake out    24/1 1/82   Portadown
                    of barn. No warning. 
                    Companion critically 
                    wounded.
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Seamus Grew         RUC ambush. Operation       12/12/82    Armagh
Roddy Carroll       carried out by RUC HQ's                 City
                    SAS-trained Special Mobile 
                    Support Unit (E4A). Trained 
                    for 'firepower, speed,
                    aggression'.Four of the 
                    shots which hit Grew were 
                    fired at a distance of 30-35
                    inches. A subsequent cover-up 
                    was initiated by senior RUC 
                    officers.
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Patrick Elliot      Shot dead at close range    27/12/82    West
                    after unarmed robbery.                  Belfast
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Francis McColgan    Shot by RUC during car      19/1/83     South
                    chase.                                  Belfast
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Eugene McMonagle    Lined up against wall and   3/2/83      Derry City
                    shot by plain clothes 
                    soldier.
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William Millar      Shot by RUC undercover      16/3/83     South
                    squad.                                  Belfast
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Anthony O'Hare      Shot by RUC 400 yards from  26/7/83     Lurgan
                    scene of alleged crime. 20 
                    shots fired by RUC.
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Martin Malone       Shot at point blank range.  30/7/83     Armagh
                    Sitting with friends on                 City
                    wall, verbal exchanges with 
                    UDR patrol.UDR man charged 
                    with murder, acquitted.
                    Charged with manslaughter, 
                    acquitted.
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Thomas (Kidso)      Shot by British Army during  9/8/83     West
Reilly              questioning on street.                  Belfast
                    Soldier convicted and served 
                    only two-and-a-half.years.
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Adrian Carroll      Shot by UDR in disguise.     8/11/83    Armagh
                    (Brother of Roddy Carroll 
                    - see above.)
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Brigid Foster       80 years old. Shot whilst   28/11/83    Tyrone
                    collecting pension during 
                    RUC stake-out operation.
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Colm McGirr         SAS stake-out operation.     4/12/83    Tyrone
Brian Campbell      50 shots fired by SAS. 
                    McGirr hit at least 13 times.
                    SAS refused to appear at inquest.
                    Medical help not called for 
                    1 1/2 hours.
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Tony Dawson         Shot by RUC officer 'in a   12/12/83    Belfast
                    temper'.
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Mark Marron         Shot by British Army whilst 30/1/84     Belfast
                    'joy-riding'.
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Declan Martin       Undercover SAS operation.   21/2/84     Dunloy
Henry Hogan         Witnesses saw Martin and 
                    Hogan wounded and then shot
                    dead as they lay on the ground.
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Seamus              Shot by RUC during          14/5/84     Larne
Fitzsimmons         attempted robbery.
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William Price       Shot by SAS using pump-     13/7/84     Arbue
                    action shotguns in 
                    undercover operation.
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John Downes         Shot in chest with          12/8/84     West
                    plastic bullet at point                 Belfast
                    blank range during peaceful 
                    demonstration. 236 plastic 
                    bullets fired by Army/RUC.
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Fred Jackson        Shot by Army in crossfire   19/10/84    East
                    between Army and IRA in                 Tyrone
                    Army undercover operation.
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Antoine MacGiolla   Shot by SAS. Beaten then    2/12/84     County
Brighde             shot in back as he lay on               Fermanagh
                    the ground. Ten bullets 
                    fired into him.
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Daniel Doherty      Shot in undercover          6/12/84  Derry City
William Fleming     operation by SAS whilst 
                    riding a motor cycle in 
                    grounds of hospital in
                    Derry. 60 bullets fired, no
                    warning.
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Sean McIlvenna      Shot in RUC undercover      17/12/8A    Moy
                    operation
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Paul Gerard         Shot by UDR while           15/1/85     West
Kelly               'joy-riding'. UDR                       Belfast
                    continued to fire point 
                    blank into car after it
                    had stopped.
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Gerard Logue        Shot by RUC while '          7/2/85     West
                    'joy-riding                             Belfast
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Charlie Breslin     Shot dead by British Army.  23/2/85     Strabane
David Devine        Fired on without warning.
Michael Devine      200 shots fired.
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Martin Love         Shot in head by UDR/British  8/4/85     Toome-
                    Army, then four more times              bridge
                    whilst on ground.
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Francis Bradley     Shot once in back of        18/2/86     Toome-
                    head whilst on ground                   bridge
                    in undercover SAS operation.
                    His killing was culmination 
                    of campaign of harassment.
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Keith White         Shot by RUC. First          31/3/86     Portadown
                    Protestant killed by 
                    plastic bullet.
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Sean McElwaine      One of the 38 escapees      26/4/86     Rosslea
                    from H-Blocks in 1983. 
                    Shot dead by SAS in 
                    undercover operation.
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James McKernan      Shot in back by British     14/9/86     Ander-
                    Army.                                   sonstown
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These figures have been compiled from various sources. We would like
particularly to acknowledge the information from the Irish Information
Partnership (contained in Irish Information Agenda, 1987, 'Civilians
Shot Dead in Disputed Circumstances'). There is no complete list of
shoot-to- kill operations since the end of 1986. However two infamous
incidents should be noted:

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Eugene Kelly        Eight IRA men and one       8/5/87      Loughgall
Tony Gormley        civilian shot dead in 
Padraig McKearney   SAS/RUC undercover operation. 
Gerard O'Callaghan  Four who surrendered were shot.
Seamus Donnelly     Two civilian carswhich drove 
Jim Lynagh          into the ambush were raked with 
Paddy Kelly         fire. In one car, Anthony Hughes
Declan Arthurs      was killed and his brother, Oliver, 
Anthony Hughes      was seriously wounded.
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Aidan McAnespie     Shot by British soldier     21/2/88     Aughnacloy
                    whilst on his way to 
                    football march. Army claim 
                    accident. Aidan had long 
                    been harassed and threatened 
                    by Army.
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        MAIREAD FARRELL 
        3 MARCH 1957 - 6 MARCH 1988

        Imprisoned in 1976. she took part in the I98c hunger strike
        She was Officer Commanding of Republican prisoners in Armagh
        prison throughout the 1981 hunger strike. Released in 1986,
        she campaigned actively against strip-searching and returned
        to IRA duty

        DAN McCANN 30 NOVEMBER 1957 - 6 MARCH 1988

        First imprisoned in 1973 and on three subsequent occasions.
        From 1979-1981 he was in prison 'on the blanket' during the
        campaign for political status. He was the target of British
        Army death threats and a loyalist assassination attempt.

        SEAN SAVAGE 28 JANUARY 1985 - 6 MARCH1988

        Was studying for his 'A'-levels when imprisoned on remand in
        1982 on the word of an informer who subsequently retracted. He
        joined the IRA when he was seventeen years old.
