A MAJOR new BBC documentary is set to explore events surrounding the killing of five people during two funerals in Belfast 30 years ago.
'The Funeral Murders' focuses on events which followed the funerals of three unarmed IRA members - Mairéad Farrell, Sean Savage and Daniel McCann - killed in controversial circumstances by the SAS in Gibraltar in March 1988.
As republicans buried the three at Milltown Cemetery loyalist Michael Stone ambushed mourners killing John Murray, Thomas McErlean and IRA man Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh in a gun and grenade attack.
Three days later two plain-clothed British soldiers, corporals David Howes and Derek Wood, were beaten and shot dead after they drove into the IRA man's funeral cortege in west Belfast.
The hour-long film which is due to be broadcast on BBC Two on Monday, March 19, will feature previously unheard testimony from witnesses and people closely connected to the events.
Acclaimed filmmaker Vanessa Engle said: “But beyond its value as a document of historical record, it also has contemporary resonance, thirty years on from the funerals in showing how enduring conflict arises when groups of people have politically polarised views."
