Corporals killings - Wikipedia
WEBOn 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes [ 1 ] were killed by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in what became known as the corporals killings. Wearing civilian clothes, both armed with Browning Hi-Power pistols and in a civilian car, the soldiers drove into the funeral procession of an IRA member ...
IRA man Alex Murphy convicted for infamous corporal killings dies …
WEBFri 16 Aug 2019 at 02:34. Alex Murphy, one of the men convicted for one of the most infamous killings of the Troubles, has died at home in west Belfast. He was believed to be in his early...
Thirty years on: corporals offered '˜little or no resistance' as they ...
WEBMar 7, 2018 · Three days after Michael Stone's murderous gun and grenade attack on mourners at an IRA burial in Belfast, the sheer barbarity witnessed in the slaying of two Army corporals at a subsequent...
The inside story of the brutal killing of Wood and Howes
WEBSep 18, 2016 · Three people had been killed, including Kevin Brady. The events of those two previous weeks had produced some of the most tense moments of the Troubles. Northern Ireland at the time was a...
Corporals murders: 35th anniversary marked with veterans' …
WEBMar 19, 2023 · The horrific murder of two army corporals in Belfast 35 years ago is a grim reminder that “wicked actions” should never be glorified, or attempts made to justify them, the veterans ...
East Belfast: Man charged with murder after body of woman …
WEBSep 14, 2024 · A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after the discovery of a woman's body in east Belfast on Friday night. The woman has been named as 43-year-old Rachel Simpson.
WEBCasement Park - A Community On 19 March 1988 two armed British corporals in civilian clothing drove a car into a funeral cortege in West Belfast. The crowd halted the car, removed the two men to the adjacent Casement Park and held them while the funeral proceeded. The men were taken by taxi to a piece of waste ground and shot by the IRA.
United Kingdom: Northern Ireland: fair trial concerns in Casement Park ...
WEBUnited Kingdom: Northern Ireland: fair trial concerns in Casement Park trials. The 19 March 1988 shooting of British Army corporals David Howes and Derek Wood at a funeral procession, led to over 200 arrests and 41 prosecutions, many of which failed to satisfy international fair trial standards.
WEBsome of what happened after they were taken through the gates of Casement Park. The murder of the two men, after they were seized and beaten, by Irish Republican Army (IRA) gunmen, exemplified the kind of gross breach of minimum humanitarian standards that Amnesty International seeks to op. BACKGROUND.
Casement Park Murders - Hansard - UK Parliament
WEBMay 20, 1993 · My right hon. and learned Friend has received a number of representations relating to the cases of three of those convicted—Mr. Patrick Kane, Mr. Michael Timmons and Mr. Sean Kelly.
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