SAS 'acted disproportionately' in deaths of eight IRA men at Loughgall

SAS soldiers who shot dead eight IRA men and a bystander as they attacked a police station in the North acted excessively, a lawyer for the bereaved claimed.

Solicitor Peter Corrigan claimed the targets could have been arrested as they entered the Co Armagh village of Loughgall in May 1987, avoiding the bloodshed which followed.