Police say they arrested a man in connection with an IRA bombing that killed three Northern Ireland policemen in 1982. Martin John McCauley appeared in Dublin's High Court on Thursday after being arrested on an extradition warrant related to the murders of Royal Ulster Constabulary Sgt. Sean Quinn and constables Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton.
LONDON — A 61-year-old man appeared in a Dublin court Thursday after being arrested in connection with an Irish Republican Army bombing that killed three Northern Ireland policemen in 1982.
Martin John McCauley was arrested Wednesday on an extradition warrant related to the murders of Royal Ulster Constabulary Sgt. Sean Quinn and constables Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton, police said.that reigned for three decades in a conflict involving Irish republican and British loyalist militants and U.K. security forces that left 3,600 people dead, some 50,000 wounded and thousands bereaved.
The Public Prosecution Service said the decision to press charges in the three murders was made in April before the law went into effect.Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022The three officers were killed Oct. 27, 1982 when a bomb was remotely detonated from a van overlooking a road in Kinnego Embankment in County Armagh, Det. Sgt. Adrian Murray said in Dublin’s High Court.
McCauley’s role in the bombing hasn’t been determined but there is forensic evidence tying him to the carefully planned attack, carried out by two members of the IRA, Murray said.
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