Retired Soldier Fails to Turn up to Give Evidence at Inquest Into 1991 IRA Ambush

Coroner told former soldier has refused to comply with subpoena

Graffiti on a fence in a republican housing estate in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in October 2019. Chris Summers/The Epoch Times

A former soldier who was given a subpoena to attend an inquest into the deaths of three IRA terrorists killed by the SAS in 1991 has failed to show up.

On June 3, 1991, Michael “Pete” Ryan, 37, Lawrence McNally, 39, and Tony Doris, 21, were gunned down in the village of Coagh in County Tyrone by an SAS unit which had set an ambush.