Nairac murder accused stands trial
A Co Armagh man who allegedly confessed to journalists about his alleged involvement in the disappearance of SAS Capt Robert Nairac has been returned to stand trial for his murder.
Crown Court judge Mr Justice Hart ruled on Friday that Kevin Crilly, 59, could be sent to trial on a ‘voluntary bill’ without the case first having to be considered by the lower courts.
The Belfast judge also threw out an application by Crilly’s lawyers that he had no case to answer over the 1977 disappearance of the soldier from the Three Steps Inn, Dromintee, in South Armagh.
Crilly, from Lower Faughill Road, Jonesborough will formally be arraigned before the Crown Court next week.
He is to be charged with the soldier’s murder along with two counts of false imprisonment and two charges of kidnapping.
Six men have already been jailed in connection with the SAS man’s disappearance, three of them for murder.
Capt Nairac was on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland at the time of his killing.
