A new hearing is due to get underway in the North today into six controversial killings that prompted claims of a shoot-to-kill policy by British security forces during the Troubles.

New inquests are to begin next month into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of six men who were at the centre of an alleged police shoot-to-kill policy in the North 25 years ago.

New hearings are to be held into six deaths at the centre of an alleged police shoot-to-kill policy in the North 25 years ago, it was announced today.