House of Lords to hear claims of ‘shoot-to-kill policy’

THE House of Lords will next week hear allegations of how the British security forces had a shoot-to-kill policy in the North.

The family of a man shot by the RUC in 1982 wants the British Government to investigate the killing again and their case begins in the House of Lords on Monday.

Gervaise McKerr was shot dead by the RUC along with Eugene Toman and Sean Burns on November 11, 1982, when 109 rounds were fired at the unarmed men’s car.