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Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was abducted by Republicans from a pub in Dromintee , South Armagh , during an undercover operation he was undertaking and killed by the IRA .
Retired diplomat Alistair Kerr wrote a biography of Nairac entitled Betrayal: the Murder of Robert Nairac published in 2015, which offers documentary evidence that clears Nairac of having been at Buskhill overseeing the attack. According to Kerr, on 31 July 1975 at 4 am Nairac had started out on a road journey from London to Scotland for a ...
After a suspected republican bombing killed two Protestant civilians (Robert Groves and Edward McMurray) in a pub, the UVF killed three Catholic civilians and two Protestant civilians, all males (Samuel Corr, James Coyle, Edward Farrell, John Martin, and Daniel McNeil) in a gun and bomb attack at the Chlorane Bar. In a separate bomb attack on ...
Robert Nairac was killed and secretly buried almost 50 years ago. The location of his remains has been a mystery ever since. Search ends for remains of soldier abducted and killed in 1977
14 May 1977 - Robert Nairac (29), undercover British Army officer, was abducted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army outside the Three Step Inn, Dromintee, near Forkhill and presumed killed. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Several men have been imprisoned for his murder.
Nairac was a Military Liaison Officer (MLO) attached to 14 Intelligence Company – his sole mandate was to brief soldiers on information received and collated from MI5 and RUC Special Branch, so his unsanctioned presence at the Three Step Inn may have been a sign he was attempting to develop his own sources of intelligence. His remains have ...
Robert McConnell — a UVF member and 2nd Battalion UDR corporal. The Barron Report lists him as one of the suspects in the Dublin bombings. He allegedly had links to both RUC Special Branch and the Intelligence Corps, and it was claimed he was controlled before and after the bombings by Robert Nairac . [ 40 ]
British Army officer Robert Nairac, who disappeared from South Armagh, was a Mauritius-born Roman Catholic. [7] [8] The organisation said they could only accurately locate the body of one of their victims, but gave rough ideas for the remaining eight. [9] [10] As of September 2017, the remains of three of the victims have still not been found.