PSNI chief agrees to release alleged 'shoot-to-kill' reports

Top secret reports into allegations the security forces operated a shoot-to-kill policy in the North more than two decades ago are finally to be opened to the North's chief coroner, it was revealed today.

John Leckey told a preliminary hearing into the contentious deaths of six republicans and a teenager in Co Armagh in 1982 that he had been informed the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Hugh Orde had agreed to his request to see the confidential Stalker and Sampson reports.