Soldiers' blood 'on documents involved in NI peace process'

An envelope containing a key document which helped trigger the peace process in the North was smeared with the blood of two soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast, a new TV documentary reveals tonight.

Soldiers' blood 'on documents involved in NI peace process'

An envelope containing a key document which helped trigger the peace process in the North was smeared with the blood of two soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast, a new TV documentary reveals tonight.

Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest, had the document under his arm when he kneeled to anoint the bodies of the two men who were shot after they accidentally drove into the path of a republican funeral in March 1988,

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