Police ‘admit to SAS role in IRA deaths’

POLICE chiefs have finally admitted the SAS were called in to kill eight IRA men during a major security operation, the dead men’s families claimed last night.

Relatives of Patrick Kelly, who commanded the unit gunned down in 1987, also alleged Northern Ireland’s Chief Constable backed the decision to deploy troops.

The IRA man’s sister Roisin emerged from talks with PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde and said: “He told us the RUC were involved up to a point and then they called in the SAS.