US Authorities Alerted to Nairac Accused

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US authorities alerted to Nairac accused
Police in the north have alerted authorities in the US after claims a man wanted over the murder of an undercover British soldier has been tracked down near New York.

Patrick Maguire, 57, is suspected of involvement in the brutal torture and assassination of Captain Robert Nairac in an isolated field near the Irish border in 1977. His body has never been found.
As well as two others, the South Armagh builder went on the run to America in the weeks after the killing.


PSNI detectives are now liaising with their colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic over a reported sighting in a New Jersey suburb.
The Sun newspaper said it confronted Maguire at his house.
According to the paper, he expressed regrets when challenged about the killing but said he would not be returning to Northern Ireland.
"There's nothing I can say about that night... Of course I have regrets about it... but I'm not going to say any more," the father of four told the paper.
'Regrets'
"I'm not going to go back into the past. And if the past catches up with me, then... There's nothing can change things now and I've told you I regret it but that's as far as I can go... There's nothing can change it, it's 30-odd years ago."
PSNI sources said they are satisfied the man pictured in the paper is Maguire.
In the years after the 29-year-old Grenadier Guardsman was killed, three men were convicted of his murder, but police said three other suspects evaded arrest after going on the run to the US .
One of those men - 59-year-old Kevin Crilly from Jonesborough, South Armagh - subsequently returned to Northern Ireland and last month he was charged with the murder at Newry Magistrates Court.
Maguire and another suspect - republican Terry McCormick - continue to elude the authorities.
Capt Nairac, from Gloucestershire, was interrogated and then shot dead after being snatched from a pub car park near Jonesborough, south Armagh and driven across the border to an isolated field at Ravensdale, Co Louth.
His remains have never been found amid claims from former IRA members that the body was disposed of at a local meat processing plant to hide the terrible injuries he suffered before death.
He was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his bravery.
A spokeswoman for the PSNI said: "The investigation into Robert Nairac's murder is active and ongoing.
"One man is currently on remand charged with the murder and PSNI detectives are still working to locate and extradite at least two other suspects. Liaisons will continue with law enforcement agencies around the world, including the US."


Christ,

Leave the man alone. Nairac was killed in a war three decades ago while actively trying to infiltrate the IRA. What the fuck did they expect?

Typical of the hypocritical imperialists to only ever seek "justice" for their own. The perpetrators of Bloody Sunday still haven't served a day in prison, yet they're chasing down someone who killed a soldier occupying his country.

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Imperialist bullshit from The Sun


THIS is the man who has eluded British justice for more than 30 years.
Patrick Maguire is alleged to be one of the brutal gang of IRA members and sympathisers who kidnapped undercover British soldier Robert Nairac, tortured and beat him senseless, then coldly shot him in the head.

According to others in the murder gang, Maguire played a central part in the ferocious struggle of May 14, 1977, that ended in Captain Nairac's death. No trace of his body has ever been found.

Maguire fled to America on a visitor's visa and is now a US resident.


Hero ... Robert Nairac
But The Sun tracked him down to a tranquil New Jersey suburb.

And when we confronted him, the Irishman remained as spineless as he was on the night a baying pack of nine set on Capt Nairac.

In a heartless response to a recent appeal from Capt Nairac's family to help them find his body, Maguire claimed: "There's nothing I can do."

The haunting story of what happened to the SAS-trained Grenadier Guards officer, posthumously awarded the George Cross for his bravery, remains an enduring mystery.

The 29-year-old, Oxford-educated soldier ventured into the heartland of the Provisional IRA when he went undercover to the Three Steps Inn at Drumintee, two miles from the Irish border.

He was posing as a member of the Official IRA from Belfast and wanted to gather information on the terrorist group.

No one knows who found out he was a Brit, but as Capt Nairac walked to his car at closing time a gang of men who had been drinking at the bar, allegedly including Maguire, jumped him.

Tortured

Capt Nairac was beaten up then driven three miles to Ravensdale forest, across the border. There he was tortured for several hours as his captors tried to force him to reveal his identity.

When they failed, the group stood round laughing as an IRA gunman carried out the assassination.

Maguire, 57, is accused of being one of three men - along with republican hardliner Terry McCormick, still on the run - who fled from Northern Ireland in the days after the killing.

Maguire now lives with wife, Mary, 57, and their children, Anne Marie, 26, Christine, 24, Keira, 23 and Patrick junior, 22, in a detached house in the quiet community of Dumont.

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When The Sun first knocked he denied any connection with Capt Nairac's murder. But eventually, in his still-broad Irish brogue, he admitted: "There's nothing I can say about that night... Of course I have regrets about it... but I'm not going to say any more.

"I'm not going to go back into the past. And if the past catches up with me, then... There's nothing can change things now and I've told you I regret it but that's as far as I can go... There's nothing can change it, it's 30-odd years ago.

"Things have changed in the north now. If they have progress in the north well and good, but they're not going to find the body here."

Flabby and scruffy Maguire - he is a tiler and building worker in Manhattan - admitted he would like to return to South Armagh.

And, incredibly, he tried to gain pity for the years he has missed with his family: "I'd like to go home because I've lost a lot over there too... I've lost two brothers and a sister and a mother and father. There's been many losses over the 30 or so years of looking over my shoulder. Has it been worth it? No, of course it hasn't."

Several times The Sun offered Maguire the chance to voluntarily return to Britain to give himself up to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), who want to question him about the Nairac murder.


Tranquil ... scene of Robert Nairac's horrific death
Each time Maguire refused and said: "My lawyers have given me advice and I've got to stick with that. There's nothing I can do.

"I'd like to think they won't charge me but we have to wait and see. The bitterness of the past is not there any more. There aren't the headlines of the past but...

"Could you help me? You could wave a magic wand, maybe that will help me. Whatever it is, it is.

"I have a wife and four kids here now and it would be difficult to go back there now, it would." Maguire callously refused to offer any help for Capt Nairac's surviving family - sisters Rosamund and Gabrielle - who still have no body to bury.

Despite rumours the IRA put his remains through a mincer, statements taken in 1977 suggest the body was removed from a farmer's field near where he was shot - a place on the southern side of the border known as Flurrybridge - to a wooded area in the north.

But with barely a glimmer of remorse or concern about helping to find the body, Maguire said coldly: "I told you there's nothing I can do.

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"I don't know anybody, I've been out of there for over 30 years. I don't want to know anyone, that's the past. I haven't talked to people over there in 30 or more years.

"I don't know anyone and I'm not putting anyone in touch with anyone. It's the people that are still there, they're the ones to help. I'll think about it but there's nothing more I can do."

A review of the Nairac case was ordered by Detective Chief Supt Tim Hanley, from the PSNI's C2 Serious Crime Branch, two years ago.

The Sun has kept him and his team fully informed of our inquiries both in Ireland and in the US.

Liam Townson, the IRA gunman, was convicted of murdering Capt Nairac and served 13 years before being released in 1990.

Thomas Morgan and Gerard Fearon were convicted of murder and given life, Danny O'Rourke was sentenced to ten years for manslaughter, Michael McCoy got five years for kidnapping and Owen Rocks received two years for withholding information.

All were released early in line with normal sentencing procedures in Northern Ireland.

Last month, a 59-year-old man appeared in court in Newry charged with the murder of Capt Nairac



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