Around 20 ex-SAS squaddies are going through homicide fees for the capturing of IRA gunmen greater than 30 years in the past

Around 20 former contributors of the SAS who shot useless IRA gunmen greater than 30 years in the past are going through homicide fees, The Mail on Sunday can expose.

Details were disclosed for the primary time in a letter despatched to each British Army regiment via the SAS Association, step one in a military-style fightback introduced via senior SAS officials known as Project Verity.

SAS leaders are making an allowance for a ‘mass expression of shock’ via the United Kingdom’s two million veterans. 

The letter, which has been acquired via the MoS and National Security News, says: ‘We are about to peer a surge of Northern Ireland instances instigated via nationalist activists and focused at person veterans.

‘They are essentially designed to undermine the British State and its navy forces and rewrite the historical past of the Troubles while persecuting for ever and ever rankings, most likely masses, of former squaddies, many years on from their provider. 

‘We have just lately noticed round 20 former Special Forces officials and squaddies referred to the Director of Public Prosecution for investigation, with a purpose to charging them for offences as critical as homicide and conspiracy to homicide on the subject of operations in Coagh and Clonoe in 1991 and 1992.

‘In maximum instances the terrorists in query have been closely armed and died because of their very own misadventure, regularly killed while… being arrested when stuck within the act of looking to devote homicide.

‘These instances are actually hijacked via activists in quest of to wreak vengeance on former squaddies underneath the pretence of looking for additional truths from greater than 30 years in the past.’

SAS leaders are making an allowance for a ‘mass expression of shock’ via the United Kingdom’s two million veterans

Three contributors of the IRA have been killed via the SAS at Coagh, and 4 on the Clonoe ambush.

The Government is within the technique of repealing the Legacy Act, which banned inquests and introduced conditional amnesty to these suspected of crimes on the subject of the Troubles.

Yesterday, an ex-SAS officer instructed the MoS it used to be absurd former contributors of the regiment may stand trial for homicide when senior officers and politicians have been concerned.

The MoD mentioned: ‘We recognise the devoted provider and sacrifice of the Armed Forces… in Northern Ireland all the way through the Troubles and are dedicated to supporting veterans.

‘There may also be no rewriting of historical past. The manner taken via the former govt in the course of the Legacy Act… has been discovered via the courts to be illegal.’

It mentioned it objectives to make sure there are legacy mechanisms in position which can be honest, lawful and proportionate.