Republican News · Thursday 18 March 1999

[An Phoblacht]

RIR mock solicitor's death

Two Armagh men returning home from Lurgan, where they had attended the wake of murdered human rights solicitor Rosemary Nelson, were stopped by an RIR patrol who poked fun at them when they realised where the men were coming from.

The pair were stopped at about 5.45pm as they travelled home and speaking to An Phoblacht they said the RIR pulled their car into the side of the road where they carried out a thorough search of the vehicle.

The men were also searched, ``they were harassing us pretty badly'', we were told.

As the pair being P-checked they told the British soldiers they had just been to Lurgan and this was like a signal for the RIR men to jeer and poke fun about Rosemary Nelson's death.

``The incident is all the more sickening'', said one of the men because of how the RIR have made threats against the Lurgan solicitor over the years and many of her clients have been harassed by this locally recruited British squad.


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