IRA killers ‘cheered’

The IRA killers of two RUC officers cheered as they fled the scene, a witness has claimed.

Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan were ambushed and murdered in Co Armagh in March 1989 as they returned by car from a meeting in the Republic.

The Smithwick Tribunal in Dublin heard that the killers ambushed the men in a van. Finbarr King said the gunmen opened fire on the officers’ car.