Birney recounts horror of Loughinisland murders and PSNI’s attempt to prevent exposure of collusion
The title of this book, Shooting Crows, is oddly demure for an account of horrific murders and collusion by the British army and
This includes an account of the importation of rifles from South Africa under the noses of the security forces. Many of the later killings are traced back to those weapons. This strategy frustrated ordinary detectives investigating crimes, one of whom, in the account here, succeeded in catching killers by taking care to conceal his efforts from Special Branch.
Much has been written elsewhere about how agents were protected, even with attacks being allowed to proceed. In the last year, we have hadThe second half of the book is the personal story of Birney and McCaffrey’s high-risk challenge to their arrest and their defence of their journalism. They are advised by their lawyers that the ultimate cost of their challenge, should they lose, could be £2 million and long prison sentences.
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