4 IRA Killers Won’t Get Early Parole
Four IRA members found guilty of killing a police officer will not win early paroles, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Friday, taking a position apparently at odds with Northern Ireland’s peace accord.
The Good Friday accord committed the British and Irish governments to granting early paroles by mid-2000 to all imprisoned members of truce-observing paramilitary groups.
More than 200 members of the IRA and outlawed pro-British groups have been freed. Only those convicted of crimes that occurred after April 10, 1998--the date of the agreement--were to be excluded.
Yet Ahern said lawyers had advised him that four IRA men sentenced Friday “will serve their sentence.”
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