BELFAST (via videolink)—An inquest into the deaths of three IRA men killed in an SAS ambush in 1991 has heard them described as “psychopaths” by a former member of the Provisional IRA.
But Vincent McKenna was immediately accused of being a “liar” and an “attention seeker” by the family of one of the dead men, who also pointed out he had been convicted of sexual offences against a child.
On June 3, 1991, Michael “Pete” Ryan, 37, Lawrence McNally, 39, and Tony Doris, 21, were gunned down in the village of Coagh in County Tyrone by an SAS unit which had set an ambush.
Their car collided with another car and a wall and was engulfed in flames….