61-year-old Martin John McCauley was arrested Wednesday on an extradition warrant and will be prosecuted on murder charges
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.
“The decision to prosecute more than 40 years after the incident shows the rigour and application Kenova has applied to this investigation and that evidence will now be tested by a court,” Livingstone said. “Our thoughts remain with the three officers’ families who have continued to act with courage and great dignity over the past four decades.”
A controversial law passed by the British government last year, the Legacy and Reconciliation Bill, would have given immunity from prosecution for most offences by militant groups and British soldiers after May 1. But a Belfast judge ruled in February that the bill does not comply with human rights law. The government is appealing the ruling.
The three officers were killed Oct. 27, 1982, when a bomb was remotely detonated along a road in Kinnego Embankment in County Armagh, Det. Sgt. Adrian Murray said in Dublin’s High Court.
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