New inquests into shooting of IRA suspects 25 years ago

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.

The case involves the shooting of IRA suspects Sean Burns, Gervaise McKerr and Eugene Toman in November of 1982 - they died in a hail of bullets fired into their car near Lurgan.

Catholic teenager Michael Tighe was killed in Craigavon the same month - he was shot at a hayshed where IRA explosives were stored, but the victim had no links to the organisation.

Alleged INLA members Peter Grew and Roderick Carroll were shot the following month near Armagh after being followed across the border by a police surveillance unit.

The coroner's verdict can make explicit factual findings pointing towards possible criminal or civil proceedings.