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A Co Armagh man is set to go on trial on Thursday accused of murdering a British Army officer over three decades ago.

Kevin Crilly | Robert NairacCaptain Robert Nairac was abducted and executed by the IRA in May 1977.

59-year-old Kevin Crilly, from Lower Foughill Road, Jonesborough, will go on trial on Thursday at Belfast Crown Court.

He was arrested three years ago charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.

In November 2009, Crilly was also charged with Nairac’s murder of at Newry Magistrates Court during a bail hearing on the two previous charges.

Crilly had previously lived in America for almost three decades.

In the years after Nairac’s disappearance, three men were convicted of his murder, but police always said they were looking for more suspects.

Captain Nairac, originally from Gloucestershire, was a 29-year-old Grenadier Guardsman.

He was questioned, tortured and then shot dead after being snatched from the car park of the Three Steps Inn at Drumintee, near Jonesborough.

He was driven across the border to an isolated field at Ravensdale, Co Louth.

His remains have never been found.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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