The World - News from Feb. 25, 1985
The outlawed Irish Republican Army said it has executed an unemployed laborer for being a police informer, but a Belfast police spokesman called the death a “brutal killing without justification.” The body of Kevin Coyle, 24, the father of three children, was found in a Londonderry street with a single gunshot wound to the head. The body was discovered 19 hours after a British army patrol ambushed and killed three armed IRA members. There was no apparent connection between the incidents.
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