Witness who Claims IRA men Killed in SAS Ambush Were ‘Psychopaths’ Called a ’Liar’

Inquest into 1991 incident in Coagh also hears eyewitness account from former RUC officer

Undated image of murals showing a soldier smashing a barricaded door with a sledgehammer and Bogside residents fleeing from a teargas attack, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Carole Jobin

An inquest into the deaths of three IRA men killed in an SAS ambush in 1991 has heard them described as “psychopaths” by a former member of the Provisional IRA.

But Vincent McKenna was immediately accused of being a “liar” and an “attention seeker” by the family of one of the dead men, who also pointed out he had been convicted of sexual offences against a child.