This is what happened over Gibraltar. As the victims were being buried in Belfast on 16 March 1988, a Loyalist gunman, Michael Stone, made a gun and grenade attack on the mourners, killing three of them. While one of the victims, Kevin Brady, was being buried three days later in an atmosphere of extraordinary tension, two British corporals in plain clothes drove into the funeral, apparently unaware of what was going on. The soldiers, Robert Howes and Derek Wood, were dragged from their vehicle by a mob, beaten, stripped and then shot. For me the photograph of Fr Alec Reid, who had vainly tried
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